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Breeding Notes. — A pair nested in a field near Bracebridge, 

 Muskoka, Ont., a few years since, but the species is rare in this 

 district. (Spreadborough.) It is becoming scarcer every year in 

 the St. Lawrence valley. A few birds breed in the vicinity of the 

 lake near Macintosh Mills, Ont. I met with a nest on June 3rd, 

 1 891. It was made on a little mossy hillock in a small clump of 

 second-growth trees, near a large grove, and at no great distance 

 from the edge of the lake. At that date the eggs — four in number 

 — were greatly incubated. They exactly resembled those of the 

 old-world species, but are smaller. This bird is still not uncommon 

 (1906) in the vicinity of Madoc, Hastings county, Ont. It breeds 

 in the townships of Huntingdon and Rawdon. {Rev. C. J. Young.) 

 On May 20th, 1895, Mr. Robert Johnson of the Geological Survey 

 found a nest of this species in a piece of swampy ground on the left 

 of the Chelsea road, south of the crossing of the Gatineau Valley 

 railway. It was on a hummock in the swamp and was merely a 

 depression lined with grass and sheltered by cedar bushes. The 

 locality is about four miles from Ottawa. 



XCIII. GALLINAGO Leach. 1816. 



229. European Snipe. 



r.- Gallinago gallinago (Linn.) Light. 1854. 



One received from Dr. Paulsen in 1845, but this species has been 

 so often observed in Greenland that it may very likely breed there. 

 {Arct. Man.) This species and the next are, according to Winge 

 {Greenland Birds, p. 176), about equally numerous in Greenland. 

 Neither is common. He thinks they may perhaps breed. 



230. Wilson Snipe. 



Gallinago delicata (Ord) A. O. U. List. 1886. 



A common summer migrant and breeds in Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and abundantly on 

 all the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as in Quebec 

 and eastern Ontario. Spreadborough found it breeding from Mis- 

 sinabi north to Cape Henrietta Maria, James bay, and at Great 

 Whale river, Hudson bay, where he saw one with a young brood in 

 July, 1896. 

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