184 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
250. Pacific Godwit. 
Limosa lapponica bauert (NAUM.) STEJN. 1885. 
This bird was found by Dall to be plentiful at the Yukon mouth; 
found by me common at Unalaska and St. Michael in the early 
part of May. (Nelson.) Met with as a migrant on the Aleutian 
islands when on their way to the north. It doubtless breeds at St. 
Michael, but I did not obtain eggs. (Turner.) This species only 
occurs at Point Barrow as a straggler after the breeding season. 
(Murdoch.) A fairly abundant migrant on the Pribilof islands, 
Bering sea. (Palmer.) 
BREEDING NoTES.—This species frequents open grassy parts of 
the country about St. Michael, and is quick to protest against any 
invasion of its territory. Its nest was not found, but Dall informs us 
that it lays two light olivaceous spotted eggs in a rounded depres- 
sion in a sedge tussock, lined with dry grass. (Nelson.) 
251. Hudsonian Godwit. 
Limosa hemastica (LINN.) COUES. 1874. 
This species is a common migrant in spring and fall in New- 
foundland; an autumn migrant in Nova Scotia; occasionally in both 
spring and fall in New Brunswick; rather rare in Quebec but more 
so in Ontario. Its line of migration is from the Atlantic coast to 
Hudson bay as it is frequently taken at Churchill and York Factory. 
It is rare in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and none remain to breed. 
It was first seen by Spreadborough at Indian Head, Sask., on May 
1ith, 1892, afterwards a few stragglers passed north but none 
remained. Richardson says this species breeds abundantly on the 
Barren Grounds and on the shores of the Arctic sea and migrates 
southward in the-autumn. 
One single specimen from Nulato and two from the Yukon mouth 
are all the records we have of the occurrence of this species in Bering 
sea. A few have been taken in other parts of Alaska but only as 
stragglers. (Nelson.) Two specimens were obtained at Point 
Barrow, Alaska, by MclIlhenney, July 14th, 1898. 
BREEDING NotTes.—This species is not very common on the 
Barren Grounds, although several nests were taken near the post 
