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concealed. Incubation had progressed about a week. I noticed 
a small flock of these birds at the Magdalen islands on July rst, 
1897. They were running about, among bunches of sea-weeds 
feeding. It occurred to me these were possibly non-breeding birds, 
or else males, the females nesting in the neighbouring bog. (Rev. 
C. J. Young.) On June 13th, 1900, Mr. Day and I flushed a least 
sandpiper from her nest on the Magdalen islands. The nest was a 
mere hollow in the ‘‘barrens”’ just back from the edge of a slough, 
among sparse growth of coarse grass and moss, the structural part 
consisting of simply a few dry bayberry leaves. (H. K. Job.) 
242.1 Long-toed Stint. 
Acsptodromas damacensis (HorsF.) STEJN. 1883. 
Asia, breeding toward Arctic coast; accidental on Otter island, 
Bering sea, Alaska. (A. O. U. List.) A single specimen was taken 
on Otter island by Mr. C. H. Townsend who says it was feeding in 
a shallow lake with other Tringe. 
XCIX. PELIDNA Cuvier. 1817. 
243. Dunlin. 
Pelidna alpina (Linn.) C. L. BREHM, 1831. 
Bird of passage. Taken occasionally in Greenland. (Wunge.) 
Accidental in eastern North America, west side of Hudson bay. 
(AV OsU. List.) Rare migrant in Nova Scotia.’ (H. F. Tufts.) 
243a. Red-backed Sandpiper. 
Pelidna alpina sakhalina. VIEILL. 1816. 
A rare migrant along the Atlantic coast but commoner in Quebec 
and Ontario. According to Seton it is tolerably common in Mani- 
toba, but the writer has never seen it nor heard of its being seen 
west of that province. It is common in summer on Hudson bay 
and along the Arctic coast generally, especially in northern Alaska, 
where it breeds in great numbers, but never far from the sea. Both 
Brooks and Fannin speak: of this species as being common on the 
British Columbia coast in spring and fall. 
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