170 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA 
procured or seen at Wales sound, Hudson strait, in 1885. (Payne.) 
A summer migrant, but rare, at Cow Head, Newfoundland; an un- 
common winter resident on the Nova Scotia coast; not rare on the 
coast of New Brunswick in winter; occasional at Beauport, Montreal, _ 
and other points on the river St. Lawrence. Occasional at Ottawa, 
Ont.,—one taken by Mr. N. Forbes on the Rideau river, October 
28th, 1885, and another by Mr. G. R. White. The same year one 
specimen was taken at Hamilton, Ont., by Dr. K. C. MelIlwraith, 
and a few others since. Fleming records it as a rare but regular fall 
migrant at Toronto, Ont. It has never been noticed in the west, 
and seems to be solely a northeastern bird. 
_ BREEDING NotTes.—This species breeds so far to the north that 
we can add nothing to what Sir John Richardson said so many 
years ago—that it breeds abundantly on Melville peninsula and 
the northern shores of Hudson bay. 
236. Aleutian Sandpiper. 
Arquatella cowest RipGW. 1880. 
This bird nests throughout the Aleutian chain from the western- 
most island east to the Shumagin group, south of Aliaska. In 
its autumnal wanderings it extends all along the eastern shore of 
Bering sea and even along the coast of the Arctic sea. Its winter 
range includes the Aleutian islands and the coast of Kadiak, with the 
mainland to Sitka and probably farther south. (Nelson.) This 
species arrives at St. Michael early in May, and is then strictly 
littoral-maritime, resorting to the larger boulders and rocky shelves 
covered with sea-weed, among which the birds search for slugs and 
other marine worms. (7urner.) One specimen taken on Kadiak 
island, Alaska. (Grinnell.) One specimen taken by Figgins at 
Homer and three males and two sets of eggs by Anderson at Mueller 
bay, Alaska. (Chapman.) Three specimens in winter plumage 
were obtained at Port Clarence, Alaska, Aug. 22nd, 1898. (Mc- 
Tlhenny.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The Aleutian sandpiper arrives at St. Michae}] 
early in May of each vear and in considerable numbers, being gener- 
ally, on its arrival, in the dark plumage, which is changed for that 
of summer by the first of June in this locality. By the middle of 
June it is rare to see one of these birds in the winter plumage. On 
