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Factory, July 19th. Several more were noted August i2tli about 

 25 miles south of Cape Eskimo. (Preble.) Regular fall migrant 

 at Toronto, Ont., not common. Adults in full plumage, July i8th 

 to 28tli and j^oung August gth to September 26th. There are records 

 of birds from June 25th to 30th but I have not seen these speci- 

 mens. (/. H. Fleming.) 



It seems to be rare in Manitoba, as Seton records only one positive 

 capture, but Spreadborough found it common at Indian Head, 

 Sask., in September, 1891. In the following spring it was first seen 

 on the 18th May, and had disappeared by June 5th. Dr. Coues 

 obtained specimens in a pond near the eastern base of the Rocky 

 mountains on August i6th, 1874, in lat. 49°. Sir John Richardson 

 says it is not uncommon up to the 6oth parallel and still farther 

 north. It is frequent in the interior in the breeding season, and 

 resorts to the shores of Hudson bay in autumn, before going south- 

 It was found by Ross on the Mackenzie as far north as Fort Simp- 

 son, but rare. Kermode records one specimen as haviftg been taken 

 by Brooks at Chilliwack, B.C., August 19th, 1899. -Our records of 

 this species are scanty, but its chief breeding haunts are likely along 

 the southwest side of Hudson bay. 



Breeding Notes. — The stilt sandpiper was fairly abundant on 

 the shores of Franklin bay, where a number of nests with eggs and 

 young were discovered. It is, however, very rare in the interior 

 only one nest being taken at Rendezvous lake on the borders of the 

 wooded country east of Fort Anderson. (Macfarlane.) 



XCVI. TRINGA LiNN^us. 1758. 

 234. Knot. Gray-back. Eobin Snipe. 



Tringa canutus Linn. 1758. 



Rare in the south of Greenland but often met with in the north ; 

 believed not to breed below lat. 68°; reported to have been found 

 breeding on Melville peninsula and Parry islands. {Arct. Man.) 

 A migrant in Newfoundland; a rare autumn and winter visitant 

 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Rare in Quebec but commoner 

 in Ontario. On the 4th June, 1890, Mr. Ernest White of Ottawa, 

 Ont., obtained eight specimens out of a ilock of about seventy, but 

 it has never been taken since. A few specimens are recorded from 



