CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 183 
bay on the 16th of June, 1896, which were doubtless breeding. As 
the mouth of the Severn river, where Hutchins found it breeding, 
is 300 miles to the northwest, this bird probably breeds on the west 
and south shores of Hudson bay and on some of the larger interior 
lakes. Found breeding at Fullerton, Hudson bay by Low. 
CIV. LIMOSA Brisson. 1760. 
249. Marbled Godwit, 
Limosa fedoa (LINN.) SABINE. 1823. 
Recorded from several Hudson Bay localities. A periodical 
visitor in Newfoundland, especiaily in the autumn; very rare in 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; rare in Quebec and Ontario, 
and always as a migrant. It is a common summer resident from 
eastern Manitoba to the Rocky mountains, seeming to prefer the - 
margins of brackish lakes and pools. It is more plentiful north of 
the Canadian Pacific railway than south of it, and is particularly 
abundant on the plains south of Battleford, Sask. 
First seen at Indian Head, Sask., April 29th, 1892; after this 
they kept arriving up to June 24th, when I saw a number in a 
large marsh. They appeared to be breeding, but I failed to find 
any nests. (Spreadborough.) Fannin reports this bird from the 
Similkameen district, in southern British Columbia, and says it 
breeds east of the coast range. MclIlhenny obtained one bird of 
_ the year at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 26th, 1897. 
BREEDING Notes.—Breeding on both coasts of James bay in 
1904. (Spreadborough.) Very common about all the lakes we 
visited in Saskatchewan. Breeding in the meadows. (A. C. Bent.) 
Breeds regularly in all the larger marshes in Manitoba and was 
noted in 1906 in similar localities as far west as Edmonton. (Atkin- 
son.) Although this bird is so plentiful on the prairies its eggs are 
seldom taken on account of the bird being so wary and the male 
bird being always on the alert to warn the female. On June 6th, 
1901, while driving to Saltcoats marsh in northern Saskatchewan 
we flushed a bird off its nest containing four eggs. The nest was 
a mere hollow in the ground lined with bits of dry grass. (Razne.) 
