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small flock of this species near Skagway, Alaska, and others I believed 

 to be this species near Wrangell narrows and in Prince Frederick 

 sound. (Bishop.) This species is an abundant migrant on the 

 Pribilof islands but found in the greatest numbers in the autumn. 

 (Palmer:) 



Breeding Notes. — Very early in June, at St. Michael, Alaska, 

 the eggs are laid in a slight depression, generally on the damp flats 

 where the birds are found. There is rarely any lining to the nest. 

 Towards the end of June most of the young are hatched and by the 

 middle of July are on the wing. The sites chosen for this bird's 

 nest are very similar to those taken by P. lobatus, except that the 

 latter may pick drier situations. One nest was taken on June 8th 

 within six feet of a brackish pool, the eggs being deposited in a nest 

 of dried leaves under a dwarf willow. (Nelson.) Very common 

 around Fullerton and Southampton island, Hudson bay. They nest 

 around fresh- water ponds laying their eggs, without nesting material, 

 in depressions in the sand or moss, often in lichens. (A . P. Low.) 



LXXXVIII. PHALAROPUS Brisson. 1760. 

 223. Northern Phalarope. 



Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.) Salvad. 1872. 



Seems to be the commonest species of phalarope in Greenland, 

 and possibly very far to the northward. (Ard. Man.) Breeds on 

 islets in Ungava bay and is common along the northern coast of 

 Labrador. (Turner.) Observed about a dozen in a small pond 

 on an island in James bay, June 1 6th, 1 896, where they were evidently 

 breeding. None were seen in the interior of Labrador. (Spread- 

 borough.) A migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New 

 Brunswick. 



It is a common migrant in Quebec but rare in Ontario. Com- 

 mon in summer in all parts of Hudson bay, where it undoubtedly 

 breeds in large numbers, although it seems to be a rare migrant in 

 Manitoba. Dr. Coues found this bird in numbers in a pool near 

 the base of the Rocky mountains, not far from the International 

 Boundary, on August i6th, 1874, and thought it might breed there. 

 It was very abundant at Indian Head, Sask., in 1892. Spread- 

 borough says it was first seen there May 15th, but by May 25th to 



