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THE CAMP ON THE BEACH-SANTA MARGARITA ISLAND 



Bird-Nesting in Norch-West Canada. 



[CONTINUED.] 



By Walter Raine. 



JUNE 17. — I arrived at I^ong I,ake in 

 Manitoba and found F, Dippie had 

 collected some fine skins, including 

 lyesser Yellow-legs, Stilt Sandpiper, Least 

 Sandpiper, and other birds which no doubt 

 occasionally nest in this region. 



After dinner we went out and collected 

 some eggs of Black Tern, and I found a 

 nest containing two fresh eggs of the Can- 

 vas-back Ditck, which we left so as to get 

 the complete clutch. In the evening I 

 found two nests of the Shoveller Duck quite 

 close to the house where Dippie was stay- 

 ing, and I wondered how he had overlooked 

 them. One nest contained eleven eggs and 

 the other thirteen eggs. Both nests were 

 built in the grass, and the nests were 

 abundantly lined with down. 



June 18 — While Dippie was busy skin- 

 ning birds I went out in search of a nest of 

 Ivcconte's Sparrow, knowing that Dippie 

 had shot several birds recently near the 



farm. After two hours' hard work pacing 

 up and down and walking pver every yard 

 ot the ground where Dippie had shot his 

 birds, I was at last rewarded by flushing a 

 little bird out of the grass in front of my 

 feet, and there was its nest and five eggs. 

 I felt sure it was the nest of Leconte's 

 Sparrow, so I ^entfor Dippie and he came 

 along and tried to shoot the bird, but so 

 wary was she that we did not secure her 

 until three days afterward, when Dippie 

 shot her as she flew from the nest. This is 

 probably the first authentic clutch on 

 record; and nest, eggs and bird are now in 

 the United States National Museum at 

 Washington. 



Mr. Oliver Davie describes a nest and 

 eggs supposed to belong to this species, 

 which was found by Mr. E. E. Thompson 

 in Manitoba, but Mr. Thompson has seen 

 the set I collected and says his eggs were 

 quite different to mine, and he now admits 

 the eggs he collected were not those of 

 L,econte's Sparrow, but belonged to some 

 species of Warbler. 



On June 19 we found another nest of 



