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species to our fauna. Afterwards it was found to be the most 

 common species of snipe at St. Michael, frequenting the borders 

 of brackish pools and tide-creeks in company with other species. 

 At Port Clarence and Kotzebue sound, single specimens have been 

 taken and these, with those taken by the writer at St. Michael, 

 include all the specimens up to date. (Nelson.) Took three and 

 saw about a dozen during the short time we were on St. George 

 island, Bering sea, Oct. 3rd. One secured at Unalaska, Oct. 5th. 

 (Bishop.) Taken at Massett, Queen Charlotte islands, B. C, Dec. 

 27th,i897, by Rev. J. H. Keen. (Fannin.) Saw one near the mouth 

 of Campbell river, Comox, Vancouver island. (Brooks.) A species 

 of Eastern Asia and evidently breeding near the mouth of the 

 Yukon. 



239. Pectoral Sandpiper. Jack-snipe. 



Actodromas maculata (Vieill.) Coues. 1861. 

 One was received from Greenland in 1851 by the Copenhagen 

 museum, and two others were sent there from near Disco in 1859- 

 (Arct. Man.) Occasional in Greenland. Several skins have been 

 taken since i860. (Winge.) First seen on the marshes about 50 

 miles north of York Factory, July 19th where it was rather common. 

 Common on the meadows bordering Button bay, July 31st and 

 abundant on the Barren Grounds south of Cape Eskimo, August 

 3rd to 13th. (Preble.) A common migrant along the whole Atlan- 

 tic coast from Cape Chidley south to New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia and in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, but rare farther west. 

 Only one specimen was seen by Mr. Spreadborough at Indian Head, 

 Sask., in the spring of 1892, and further west, along Milk river, a 

 female was shot, July i6th, 1895. Dwight and Bishop found a 

 few adults at Big Stick lake, Sask., July i8th-22nd, 1905, and 

 Atkinson records it as abundant in 1906 after August 8th, between 

 Manito lake and Edmonton. 



Nelson and Murdoch say that it is common in Alaska, breeding ' 

 in numbers as far north as Point Barrow. North of the Mackenzie 

 river and along the Anderson river, farther east, it is quite rare, 

 as Macfarlane saw very few and obtained no nests. Fannin and 

 Brooks report that it is not common in the migrations in British 

 Columbia. On Stubbs island, on the west coast of Vancouver islaud. 

 Spreadborough killed ten at one shot in August, 1893. 



