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Fraser river, B.C., in the fall, but rare in the spring, on account of 
the inundation of their feeding-grounds and took specimens at 
Quesnel during the 1901 migration. Spreadborough shot three out 
of a flock of ten on the 23rd August, 1893, on Stubbs island, west 
coast of Vancouver island. Mr. E. Anderson took it on Lake Okan- 
agan, B-C., 1 October, 1897. 
BREEDING Notres.—On the 24th of June, 1864, a nest containing 
four eggs was found in the Barren Grounds in a swampy tract 
between two small lakes. It was composed of a few decayed leaves, 
placed in a small cavity in the ground shaded with grass. It is 
very uncommon in the north, though nests were discovered. (Mac- 
jarlane.) This species arrives at Point Barrow about May 30th. 
After the tundra becomes clear of snow it retreats from the beach 
and is especially to be looked for on dry grassy portions of the 
tundra. It is never very common and is always solitary or in pairs. 
The nest was always well hidden in the grass and never placed in 
marshy ground or on the bare black portions of the tundra; it con- 
sists merely of a slight depression in the ground, thinly lined with 
dried grass. All the eggs we found were obtained irom the last 
week in June to the first of July, a trifle later than the other waders. 
(Murdoch.) There is no doubt that the breeding-ground of this 
species extends from the west side of Hudson bay along the Arctic 
coast to Point Barrow. Spreadborough saw three on a small island 
in James bay, Hudson bay, on June 16th, 1896, and believes they 
were breeding. 
242. Least Sandpiper. 
Actodromas minutilla  (VYEILL.) , COUES, 1861. 
One shot in the spring of 1867 on Noursoak peninsula, Green- 
land.- (Arct. Man.) One taken at Disco Fjord, 1878. (Wunge.) 
A common summer migrant in the Hudson bay region and along 
the whole Atlantic coast, including the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 
doubtless breeds in small numbers in eastern and northern Labrador 
as well as on Anticosti and the Magdalen islands. It is a common 
migrant in Quebec and Ontario, and extends as a migrant across 
the continent to the Pacific coast, where it was seen in large flocks 
on Stubbs island, west of Vancouver island, 1893. Spreadborough 
saw a few in 1903 on some of the lake shores in the Peace River 
district, Atha. It is also found in the interior of Alaska, and may 
