206 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
BREEDING Notes.—This bird is to be met with in those parts of 
Ontario that are in any way adapted to its habits. Its favourite 
haunts are rough pastures with here and there a few scrubby bushes 
scattered about; if there are a few stones and gravel, so much the 
better; the birds take kindly to such spots. I meet with a few pairs 
of this species every year, and notice that they breed comparatively 
early, the full complement of four eggs sometimes being laid as early 
as the 26th of April. I have found a number of their eggs, and 
notice that for a nesting place they usually choose a small stony or 
gravelly patch in a pasture; once I found a nest among small stones 
and rock close to a quarry, where the year before I had taken two 
nighthawk’s eggs. (Rev. C. J]. Young.) The killdeer plover breeds 
in small numbers all over western Ontario. It lays four eggs, which 
are so placed as to be very difficult of discovery. (W. Saunders.) 
This species nests in the gravel at the margin of lakes and ponds, 
also on bare ground on the prairie and in ploughed fields throughout 
the whole prairie region. The nest is a hole in the gravel or ground, 
usually not far from water. Eggs, four, always standing upon the 
small end in the nest. (W. Spreadborough.) One set of four eggs, 
taken near Ottawa, 30th May, 1900, was on a stump, level with the 
ground. The nest consisted of small pieces of the rotten wood of 
the stump. Another set of four eggs in a nest made of lichens and 
small bits of stones, was found on a large rock at Britannia, Ont., 
June roth, 1900. (Garneau.) 
CXIX. AMGIALITIS Bore. 1822. 
274. Semiplmated Plover. 
Egialitis semipalmata BONAP. 1838. 
This species is a summer resident in Newfoundland, Labrador 
and the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, breeding more or less 
abundantly. In Nova Scotia it has been found breeding on Seal 
island, Yarmouth county, by Tufts and on Sable island by Saunders. 
In New Brunswick, Prince Edward island and Quebec it is reported 
as a migrant only; yet, as Mr. Young shows, it breeds in Ontario, 
and doubtless in some of the other provinces also. In Manitoba and 
eastern Saskatchewan it is a common migrant, and breeds sparingly. 
The writer saw young birds of this species at the salt springs at the 
head of Lake Winnipegosis on 22nd July, 1881. 
