CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 173 
BREEDING NoTeEes.—This species arrives at Point Barrow about 
the end of May or early in June, and frequents the small ponds 
and marshy portions of the tundra along the shore, sometimes 
associated with other small waders, especially with the buff-breasted 
sandpiper, on the high banks or the Nunava. They begin pairing 
soon after their arrival, and are frequently to be seen chasing each 
other in the air with a loud chatter. The nest is always built in 
in the grass, with a decided preference for high and dry localities, 
stich as the banks of gullies and streams. It is sometimes placed 
at the edge of a small pool, but always in grass and in a dry place, 
never in the black clay and moss, like the plover and buff-breasted 
sandpiper, or in a marsh like the phalaropes. All the complete sets 
contained four eggs. (Murdoch.) 
240. White-rumped Sandpiper. 
Actodromas fuscicollis (VIEILL.) BONAPARTE. 1856. 
Believed by Holbcell to breed near Julianshaab, Greenland, where 
both old and young birds have been seen. (Arct. Man.) A few 
skins taken in Greenland since 1840. Perhaps a few breed. 
(Winge.) Rather common on the meadows bordering Button bay. 
A number noted on the Barren Grounds below Cape Eskimo, Hud- 
son bay. (Preble.) In flocks on the west coast of James bay in 
August. (Spreadborough.) A common migrant along the whole 
Atlantic coast and Gulf of St. Lawrence as well as the river up to 
Montreal, becoming scarcer in Ontario and increasing again in Man- 
itoba where it is common as a migrant. A few seen as far west 
as Crane lake, Sask. A few must breed around Indian Head, Sask., 
as they were observed there from May goth to July rst, 1892, when 
Spreadborough left. Sir John Richardson says this species is not 
infrequent on the shores of the small lakes that skirt the Saskat- 
chewan plains. Murdoch records the shooting of two birds of this 
species at Point Barrow and Mcllhenny five specimens at the same 
place; these are the only Alaskan records. Payne says they occur 
in large flocks in late summer at Cape Wales, Hudson strait, but 
do not breed. Both Spreadborough and Turner found them in 
large numbers in Ungava bay, Labrador, in the autumn, and Mac- 
farlane found a few breeding on the shores of Franklin bay, Arctic 
sea. Their chief breeding-ground would seem to be north of Hud- 
