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Factory, July r9th. Several more were noted August 12th about 
25 miles south of Cape Eskimo. (Preble.) Regular fall migrant 
at Toronto, Ont., not common. Adults in full plumage, July 18th 
to 28th and young August 9th to September 26th. There are records 
of birds from June 25th to 30th but I have not seen these speci- 
mens. (/. H. Fleming.) 
It seems to be rare in Manitoba, as Seton records only one positive 
capture, but Spreadborough foundit common at Indian Head, 
Sask., in September, 1891. In the following spring it was first seen 
on the 18th May, and had disappeared by June 5th. Dr. Coues 
obtained specimens in a pond near the eastern base of the Rocky 
mountains on August 16th, 1874, in lat. 49°. Sir John Richardson 
says it is not uncommon up to the 6oth parallel and still farther 
north. It is frequent in the interior in the breeding season, and 
resorts to the shores of Hudson bay in autumn, before going south- 
It was found by Ross on the Mackenzie as far north as Fort Simp- 
son, but rare. Kermode records one specimen as having been taken 
by Brooks at Chilliwack, B.C., August r9th, 1899. Our records of 
this species are scanty, but its chief breeding haunts are likely along 
the southwest side of Hudson bay. 
BREEDING Notes.—tThe stilt sandpiper was fairly abundant on 
the shores of Franklin bay, where a number of nests with eggs and 
young were discovered. It is, however, very rare in the interior 
only one nest being taken at Rendezvous lake on the borders of the 
wooded country east of Fort Anderson. (Macfarlane.) 
XCVI. TRINGA Linnzus. 1758. 
234. Knot. Gray-back. Robin Snipe. 
Tringa canutus LINN. 1758. 
Rare in the south of Greenland but often met with in the north; 
believed not to breed below lat. 68°; reported to have been found 
breeding on Melville peninsula and Parry islands. (Arct. Man.) 
A migrant in Newfoundland; a rare autumn and winter visitant 
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Rare in Quebec but commoner 
in Ontario. On the 4th June, 1890, Mr. Ernest White of Ottawa, 
Ont., obtained eight specimens out of a flock of about seventy, but 
it has never been taken since. A few specimens are recorded from 
