198 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
vicinity of rivers and ponds is the site chosen. Sets of four and 
sometimes three eggs are found near Ottawa at the end of May and 
in June. (Garneau.) The writer has found this species breeding 
in the sandhills at Brackley point, Prince Edward island, and on 
Cape Forteau, near Yarmouth, N.S., where a nest containing four 
eggs was taken on June 23rd, 1883. On June 29th, 1895, a nest 
containing four eggs was taken on the shore of Cypress lake, Sask. 
The nest was of dried grass, concealed under a tuft of old grass, close 
to the lake and was only discovered by flushing the bird. 
CXIII. NUMENIUS Brisson. 1760. 
264. Long-billed Curlew. 
Numenius longirostris WILS. 1814. 
A rare migrant in Newfoundland, and still rarer in Nova Scotia 
and New Brunswick. Rather more common in Quebec and Ontario, 
but only known as a migrant. In Manitoba, this bird is compara- 
tively rare as a breeding bird, but in Saskatchewan and Alberta, 
it is common, and extends its breeding-grounds across the Rocky 
mountains into British Columbia, where Mr. Fannin found it breed- 
ing at Okanagan and Similkameen. Its range to the north is limited, 
as we have no notices of it from north of the prairie districts, and 
only one specimen is recorded from Alaska. A few specimens have 
been taken at Victoria and in the lower Fraser valley, B.C. 
BREEDING NoTEes.—A nest of this species was taken by Col. 
Wyndham, on the Bow river, about fifty miles southeast of Calgary, 
Alta. Nest just a hollow in the ground, on the bare prairie, lined 
with a few straws. (Dippie.) Fairly common at places visited by 
us in western Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta, breeding in hollows 
on the prairie. Downy young found June rst, 1905, and June 11th 
and 18th, 1906. (A.C. Bent.) In May, 1906, we found this bird 
common south of Lethbridge, Alberta, where it lays its eggs in 
hollows on the open prairie. (Raime.) Rather rare at Aweme, 
Man. A few breed on the open prairie. Arrives early in April. 
(Criddle.) Breeding in the Lac la Hache valley, B.C., but not 
observed in the Cariboo district proper. (Brooks.) 
This bird nests on the open prairie and its nest is exceedingly hard 
to find. The male flies towards any intruders and makes the air 
