186 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
was taken at Iliamma village, Alaska, July 14th, 1900. A few days 
later we found a pair in possession of a small pond on the portage 
between lakes Iliamma and Clark. During a great part of each of 
several trips that we made back and forth, they accompanied us, 
making noisy and belligerent demonstrations. The long-legged 
birds, perched on the topmost twigs of spruce trees, looked very 
much out of place. The species was not seen again until Swan lake 
was reached, where one was seen frequently, standing in a few 
inches of water at the edge of a riffle in a small stream and watch- 
ing the water intently. Another was seen on the Malchatna river, 
September 3rd, 1900. (Osgood.) | 
BREEDING NoTEs.—Audubon, Vol. V., 319, states he found this 
species breeding in June in Labrador. (Turner.) Found in abund- 
ance on Anticosti, where it was evidently breeding; about the 
mouth of the Mingan river it is said to breed regularly. (Brewster.) 
Resident on Stubbs island, west coast of Vancouver island. Breed- 
ing in wet meadows among the woods north of the prairie, and in 
the foot-hills of the Rocky mountains. I have seen young, scarcely 
able to fly, in July. When the old birds are disturbed they will 
often settle in trees. (Spreadborough.) It is singular that the eggs 
of this bird remained so long undiscovered. The first set of eggs 
taken are in my collection. They were found in the Little Red 
Deer River region, Alberta on May 5th, 1903. The nest was a 
depression in the ground not far from water. These birds perch 
with ease on tree tops. (Raime.) Breeding about inland lakes as 
far south as Clinton, B.C. At this season both sexes stand sentinel 
on the tops of trees in the vicinity of the nest, rarely alighting on 
the ground in the presence of an intruder. The newly fledged 
young often follow the example of their parents in this respect. 
(Rhoads.) Breeding in many localities in the Cariboo district, B.C., 
but all efforts to find the nest were unsuccessful, owing to the ex- 
treme watchfulness of the male bird which kept constant watch 
from the extreme summit of some tall spruce. (Srooks.) 
255. Lesser Yellow-legs. 
Totanus flavipes (GMEL.) VIEILL. 1816. 
One sent from Greenland to Copenhagen in 1854. (Arct. Man.) 
This is a common spring and autumn migrant in Nova Scotia, New 
Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, but rarer than the preceding. 
