1 84 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



250. Pacific Godwit. 



Limosa lapponica baueri (Naum.) Stejn. 1885. 



This bird was found by Dall to be plentiful at the Yukon mouth ; 

 found by me common at Unalaska and St. Michael in the early 

 part of May. (Nelson.) Met with as a migrant on the Aleutian 

 islands when on their way to the north. It doubtless breeds at St. 

 Michael, but I did not obtain eggs. (Turner.) This species only 

 occurs at Point Barrow as a straggler after the breeding season. 

 (Murdoch.) A fairly abundant migrant on the Pribilof islands, 

 Bering sea. (Palmer.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species frequents open grassy parts of 

 the country about St. Michael, and is quick to protest against any 

 invasion of its territory. Its nest was not found, but Dall informs us 

 that it lays two light olivaceous spotted eggs in a rounded depres- 

 sion in a sedge tussock, lined with dry grass. (Nelson.) 



251. Hudsoriian Godwit. 



Limosa hmmastica (Linn.) Coues. 1874. 



This species is a common migrant in spring and fall in New- 

 foundland ; an autumn migrant in Nova Scotia ; occasionally in both 

 spring and fall in New Brunswick ; rather rare in Quebec but more 

 so in Ontario. Its line of migration is from the Atlantic coast to 

 Hudson bay as it is frequently taken at Churchill and York Factory. 

 It is rare in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and none remain to breed. 

 It was first seen by Spreadborough at Indian Head, Sask., on May 

 nth, 1892, afterwards a few stragglers passed north but none 

 remained. Richardson says this species breeds abundantly on the 

 Barren Grounds and on the shores of the Arctic sea and migrates 

 southward in the autumn. 



One single specimen from Nulato and two from the Yukon mouth 

 are all the records we have of the occurrence of this species in Bering 

 sea. A few have been taken in other parts of Alaska but only as 

 stragglers. (Nelson.) Two specimens were obtained at Point 

 Barrow, Alaska, by Mcllhenney, July 14th, 1898. 



Breeding Notes. — ^This species is not very common on the 

 Barren Grounds, although several nests were taken near the post 



