CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. IQ! 
piper does not lay its eggs in a nest on the ground like other sand- 
pipers, but takes possession of the nests of other birds, built in 
trees, just the same as its old world representative, the green sand- 
piper, is known to do. 
Mr. Raine sends the following note on the nests found by him 
in 1906: ‘‘During June, 1906, we were fortunate in finding three 
nests of this bird in northern Alberta. The first was on June 5th. 
It contained four eggs laid in the old nest of a Canada jay that 
was built in a small spruce tree five feet from the ground. On June 
8th, 1906, we found another set of four eggs laid in the nest of a 
Brewer blackbird about fifteen feet from the ground, and again 
on June 11th we found another set of four eggs laid in an old king, 
bird’s nest at least twenty feet up in a poplar tree. So far, I have 
had nine clutches of eggs of this bird and all were laid in old nests 
of other birds built in trees, and besides the above named nests, 
this bird lays its eggs in that of the American robin, cedar wax- 
wing and bronzed grackle.”’ 
Mr. P. Garrett, of Didsbury, Aita., found a nest of the solitary 
sandpiper in a spruce tree at Fallen Timber creek, Alta., in an old 
nest of the Bohemian waxwing. The spruce was about twelve feet 
high and the nest about four and a half feet from the ground. The 
tree was near a slough, watered by springs flowing out slowly into 
the river. The nest contained three eggs. 
256a. Cinnamon Solitary Sandpiper. 
Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus BREWSTER. 1890. 
Summer resident in the interior of British Columbia; at Ducks 
near Kamloops, I saw individuals that were not yet able to fly. 
and must have been hatched in the vicinity. (Streator.) Tolerably 
common migrant in Saskatchewan, June 30th to July 30th, 1906. 
(A. C. Bent.) The common form near Didsbury, Alta. Only one 
specimen of typical solitarius seen. (P. Garrett.) Taken at Chil- 
liwack and Okanagan, B.C., by Mr. A. C. Brooks. (Kermode.) 
Seen at Log Cabin, B.C., and Lake Marsh and Little Salmon river, 
Yukon. (Bishop.) 
It is probable that all the British Columbia and Alaska references 
under solitarius and many of those from the Northwest Territories 
should go here. 
