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nest and take to the water. The nests were all made of the dead 

 Scripus and lined with the broad leaves of the Carex. 



Order. LIMICOL^. Shore Birds. 

 Family XIX. PHALAROPODID^. Phalaropes. 

 LXXXVII. CRYMOPHILUS Vielliot. i8i6. 

 222. Red Phalarope. 



Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.) Stejn. 1885. 



Said to be the latest summer bird to arrive in Greenland; very 

 rare in the south and not known to breed below lat. 68° N., but 

 thence northward, common. {Arct. Man.) It is a common migrant 

 in Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, including Sable island, 

 ■ New Brunswick and Quebec, but rare in Ontario and prefers the 

 coast to the more inland waters. It is abundant on the shores of 

 Hudson strait and a few breed there according to Turner. Common 

 and breeding around Hudson bay. Only two specimens have been 

 seen on the prairies by the writer, one shot on Long lake, in July, 

 1879, and another on Old Wives lake, in May, 1895. Fannin men- 

 tions the species as being taken in British Columbia at Burrard 

 Inlet and at Chilliwack only. 



This species abounds in high northern latitudes, breeds on the 

 North Georgian islands and Melville peninsula, and was often seen 

 by northern expeditions swimming in the sea far from land. {Rich- 

 ardson.) This bird is fairly abundant on the shores of Franklin 

 bay, where nests were obtained on marshy flats in the first week of 

 July, 1864. (Macfarlane.) This species arrives at the Yukon 

 mouth and adjacent parts of the Bering sea coast during the last 

 days of May and the beginning of June. It breeds abundantly on 

 all the coasts and islands and far into the interior. (Nelson.) The 

 red phalarope arrives at St. Michael about the beginning of June. 

 It is not abundant at any time but is rather more common on the 

 mainland than on the island of St. Michael. In the neighborhood 

 of the Yukon delta it is abundant throughout the summer. (Turner.) 

 One of the commonest birds at Point Barrow, and remaining till late 

 in October when the sea begins to close. (Murdoch.) We sawfa 



