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g in marshes at Indian Head and Crane Lake, Assa., &'■: Banff, 

 3cky Mountains, and at Kamloops, B.C. {Spreadborough) In 

 marsh at Crane Lake, composed chiefly of Carex aristata and a 

 w clumps of Scirpus lacustris, the writer, in the course of an 

 •ur's wading, discovered eighteen nests of this species, nearly 

 i of which contained eleven eggs. From ten to twelve was the 

 ual number. The young hatch out very irregularly, and as fast 

 they come from the shell they leave the nest and take to the 

 Iter. The nests were all made of the dead Scirpus and lined 

 th the broad leaves of the Carex. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One taken by Mr. S. Herring in Toronto marsh, and two others 

 Kamloops, B.C., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



A set of twelve eggs, taken by Mr. Dippie at Long Lake, Man, 

 [so a set containing six eggs of the Coot and two of the Lesser 

 ;aup, taken at Burnt Lake, Alberta, June 14th, i8g6, and pre- 

 nted to the Museum by the same gentleman. 



Order LIMICOL.^. Shore Birds. 

 Family XIX. PHALAROPODID^. Phalaropes. 

 LXXXI. CRYMOPHILUS Vielliot. 1816. 

 2- Red Phalarope. 



Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.) Stejn. 1885. 



Said to be the latest summer bird to arrive in Greenland ; very 

 re in the south and not known to breed below Lat. 68° N., but 

 ence northward, common. (Arct.Man.) It is a common migrant 



Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, but 

 re in Ontario and prefers the coast to the more inland waters. 



is abundant on the shores of Hudson Strait and a few breed 

 ere according to Turner. Only two specimens have been seen 

 I the prairies by the writer, one shot on Long Lake, in July, 

 79, and another on Old Wives Lake, in Ma)', 1895. Fannin 

 entions the species as being taken in British Columbia at Bur- 

 rd Inlet and at Chilliwack only. 



This species abounds in high northern latitudes, breeds on 

 e North Georgian Islands and Melville Peninsula, and was 

 ten seen by northern expeditions swimming in the sea far 

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