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Uk'hiirdsiin states that he t'omul this spt'cics iihmulaiit in lii^'ii northern hititudes, 

 liircding on the Nortli (Jeorgian Ishinds and on the .MelviUe Peninsula. It was fro- 

 i|iiciitly seen hy the uiendiers of the northern ex|ieditions swimming at a great dis- 

 tjiuce Irom land. Its eggs — generally four in nnndter — are described as iiaving an 

 (lil-green ground, varied by crowded, irregular s[)ots of dark nnd)er-brown, whieli 

 iMCiinie eonHiient toward the o!)tnse end. 



Mr. Hatty writes that lie has observed this species keejiing in its migrations well 

 (lilt to sea, and thinks tiiat it is rarely seen inland. He met with it about the middle 

 lit May in the Hay of Fundy, whence it departed for the iu)rth shortly after its arrival, 

 rrtiutiing again in .\ugust iti coiintlchs inimbers, keeping, al)ont twelve miles from 

 the land, in the tide-streaks, where it fed (Ui the surface of the water, Hoating or 

 swimming aixmt in it as small Ducks do. 



(iiraud considered this I'halarope as of rare occurrence on Long Island, mention- 

 ing one specimen known to have been shot at (^uxiue, and others said to have been 

 taken in that vicinity. It is probably not so rare there as has l)een sui)j)()sed, A 

 tiiic pair in their winter plumage was .shot in that neig!d)orhood in October, 1S7.">, by 

 Dr. .Fames C. Merrill, and are now in tlie collection of the I'xiston Natural History 

 Sdcicty. It is said also to be rari' on the coast of New .Icrsey and on the Atlanti(! 

 >liiires generally, although probably more common a short distance out at sea. It 

 occurs as a migrant, in the fall, in the interior, on the Western lakes and rivers ; but 

 its iippearance is only occasional, and the iiistory of its distribution is but ini))erfectly 

 known. Audul)on met with it on the Ohio, near Louisville, in LSOcS. It was then 

 late in October, and the l)irds were in their winter ]ilumage. They seem to have been 

 singularly abundant at that time — so nuudi so, tluit he shot seventeen at a single 

 discharge. The same author nu-ntions that in September, 1831, — being about si.xty 

 iiiih's outside of Nantucket — he passed through an extensive bank of sea-weed, on 

 wliieli Inuidreds of this sjtecies were walking about as unconcernedly as if on land. 

 Their flight he deseril)es as rapid, and not unlike that of the Red-backed Sandpiper 

 {I'vl ill 11(1 iinwricfUKi). 



Mr. H. W. Elliott noticed tins species as being iit certain times rather more abun- 

 diuit than L. /oixitiis anunig the Prybilof Islands; yet he had no reason to believe 

 tliat it l)red there. Like that bird, it was seen by the marshy margins of the lakelets, 

 solitary or paired, but never in Hocks. The earliest arrivals oecur in June, and it 

 reappears in the greate.st number about the loth of August; by the oth of October 

 all liave left. 



Mr. IJoardman is (piite positive that a few of this species breed on the St. Croix 

 Kiver every season. On one occasion, in company with Mr. Kisder, near Princeton, 

 ill tile last of June, he canu' upon sonu' y<mng birds already hatched out and running 

 about, and one of them was killed with a tishing-pole. This was in the neighborhood 

 of (irand Lake, about sixty miles north of Calais, Me. 



Tliis bird has not — so far as known — been found abundant on the Pacific coa.st. 

 l>r. CoojH'r mentions only a single si)eeimen, which was shot near San Francisco by 

 .Mr. Hepburn ; but he did not meet with any south of that place. 



y\r. Dresser sjieaks of having received twenty eggs of this bird taken at Egedes- 

 niiiidc and Upernavik. (Treenland. Sonic had a ])ale greenish gray, or sea-green 

 gnnuid color, and Avere covered with purplish-lirown underlying shell-markings and 

 very clearly defined blackish-brown surface spots, which at the larger end were 

 almost confluent. They varied in size from .8") l)y 1.07 inches to .88 by 1.27 inches. 



This species was found breeding on the Arctic coast of North America by ilr. 

 ilacFarlane. It was nu't with in Franklin Bay, on the 4th and 5th of July, and five 



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