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the mouth of Little Buffalo River, on July 12. On September 

 17, while at Fort Reliance, we saw the last ones of the season, 

 noting a flock of six flying eastward. 



Porzana Carolina (Linn.). Sora. 



The complaining notes of this marsh-loving species were 

 heard in the swamps bordering Salt River, north-west of Fort 

 Smith, on June 24 and 25. While making the portage from 

 Grand Detour on Slave River to the Little Buffalo we several 

 times heard its voice and once saw one of the little fellows run- 

 ning along the edge of a slough. Its familiar notes were also 

 heard near the head of the Nyarling, July 11, and near Fort 

 Resolution on July 16 and 17. 



Coturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin). Yellow Rail. 



We did not actually see this secretive species but heard its 

 unmistakable notes in the extensive marsh bordering Salt River, 

 a few miles above its mouth on the evening of June 24. 



Lobipes lobatus (Linn.). Northern Phalarope. 



The northern phalarope was observed but once on Aylmer 

 Lake, near Sandhill Bay, August 20, when we saw a single bird 

 swimming about in its customary nervous manner. 



Gallinago delicata (Ord). Wilson's Snipe. 



The snipe was first observed near Edmonton on May 10. 

 While we were descending the Athabaska we heard the peculiar 

 flight sound of the species on several occasions between Poplar 

 Point and Fort Chipewyan on June 3 and 4. We noted it also 

 near Smith Landing, June 10 and 11, and near Fort Smith on 

 June 16. In the marshes bordering Little Buffalo River and 

 its tributary, the Nyarling, we saw or heard the bird daily, July 

 7 to 11. We noted the last in the delta of the Slave, near Fort 

 Resolution, on July 16 and 17, on which date it was still calling. 



