CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. I85 



on the lower Anderson river. The nests were all mere depressions 

 or small holes scooped in the earth, thinly lined with decayed leaves, 

 and in almost every instance they contained four eggs. {Macfar- 

 line.) Not rare on Southampton island, Hudson bay and breeding 

 there. (A. P. Low.) In large flocks along the west coast of James 

 bay and apparently breeding north of Cape Henrietta Maria. (Spread- 

 borough.) 



252. Black-tailed Godwit. 



Limosa limosa (Linn.) Ridgw. 1885. 

 Occasional in Greenland. {Winge.) 



CV. TOT ANUS Bechstein. 1803. 

 254. Greater Yellow-legs. 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.) Vieill. 1816. 



This species is a common migrant in both spring and fall along 

 the whole Atlantic coast. And is abundant on both shores of 

 James bay and north to Fort Churchill. In the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence and on the Labrador coast it breeds in some numbers. In 

 Quebec and Ontario it is a common migrant, but there are no records 

 of its breeding. It is an abundant migrant in spring, late summer 

 and fall in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but not very common to 

 the west of that province, although taken all across the continent. 

 It was found by Spreadborough to be common on the shores of 

 nearly all lakes between Lesser Slave lake and Peace River Landing, 

 Atha., and Ross found it as far north as Fort Simpson, on the Mac- 

 kenzie, but neither Macfarlane nor Richardson found it near the 

 Arctic sea. A few specimens have been taken on the Pacific coast 

 at Sitka. 



An abundant resident along the British Columbia coast in winter ; 

 I found it breeding in the summer of 1891 around the lakes at CUn- 

 ton, B.C. {Fannin.) Abundant in the lower Fraser valley; pro- 

 bably breeds. {Brooks.) Saw one at Penticton, B.C. {Spread- 

 borough'.)T-wo were seen and one of them taken on the beach at 

 Skidegate, Queen Charlotte islands, B.C., July 17th, 1899. Taken 

 at Fort Kenai, Alaska, by Bischofif May 6th, 1869. A male bird 



