CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. IQS 



Breeding Notes.- — For some years past I have seen a few pairs 

 of these birds every year in the neighbourhood of Kingston, Ont. 

 Favourite resorts are Simcoe island and Amherst island, Lake 

 Ontario, as well as eastward. A few sets of eggs are found yearly 

 in the month of May; in June, 1894, a pair hatched out a brood in 

 a pasture field near Lansdowne station, on the Grand Trunk rail- 

 way. A dry rough field is its favourite abode; in this respect it 

 differs from other members of the family. It makes a nest of 

 withered grass, which it partially conceals amidst the dry growth 

 of last year, and lays four eggs, resembling the woodcock's, but 

 larger. (Rev. C. J. Young.) I have part of a set of eggs taken by 

 the late Robt. Anderson, at Aylmer, Ont., and have myself seen 

 the birds in spring, summer and early fall in the London district, 

 the summer birds being undoubtedly residents. Mr. Roger Hedley, 

 of Dunrief, near London, knows of this species summering at least 

 twice in the last eight years near that place. (W. Saunders.) Its 

 breeding centre is in western Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan. 

 This species is quite rare in western Saskatchewan and southern 

 Alberta, and prefers well grassed prairie to that with a thin sod 

 and little water. 



CXI. TRYNGITES Cabanis. 1856. 

 262. Buflf-breasted Sandpiper. 



Tryngites subruficolUs (Vieill.) Ridgw. 1885. 



This is a migrant along the whole Altantic coast and in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, as well as along the river itself. Preble saw it on 

 the higher parts of the tundra north of Cape Eskimo, Hudson bay, 

 and also below Cape Churchill. 



Regular fall migrant at Toronto, Ont., but rare. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) One specimen shot at Templeton, Que. {Geo. White.) 

 In the first edition of this Catalogue the finding of the nest of this 

 bird was credited to Dr. MacCallum. Later investigation proved 

 this nest to be that of the Wilson Phalarope. See addendum. 



Seton says it is a rare migrant in Manitoba and no specimens have 

 been observed by the writer west of that province. On the Mac- 

 kenzie, Bernard Ross reports this bird to be rare, while on the 

 Barren Grounds to the northeast, Macfarlane says it is common. 



