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from land. {Richardson.') This bird is fairly abundant on the 

 shores of Franklin Bay, where nests were obtained on marshy 

 flats in the first week of July, 1864. {Macfarla?ie.) This species 

 arrives at the Yukon mouth and adjacent parts of the Behring 

 Sea coast during the last days of May and the beginning of 

 June. It breeds abundantly on all the coasts and islands and 

 far into the interior. (Nelsbn.) The Red Phalarope arrives at 

 St. Michael about the beginning of June. It is not abundant at 

 any time but is rather more common on the mainland than on 

 the island of St. Michael. In the neighborhood of the Yukon 

 Delta it is abundant throughout the summer. {Turner.) One 

 of the commonest birds at Point Barrow, and remaining till late 

 in October when the sea begins to close. {Murdoch.) 



Breeding Notes. — Very early in June, at St. Michael, Alaska, 

 the eggs are laid in a slight depression, generally on the damp 

 flats where the birds are found. There is rarely any lining to the 

 nest. Towards the end of June most of the young are hatched 

 and by the middle of July are on the wing. The sites chosen for 

 this bird's nest are very similar to those taken by P. lobatus, 

 except that the latter may pick dryer situations. One nest was 

 taken on June 8th within six feet of a brackish pool, the eggs 

 being deposited in a nest of dried leaves under a dwarf willow. 

 {Nelsmi) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two specimens taken in Toronto marsh by Mr. S. Herring. 

 LXXXII. PHALA-ROPUS Brisson. 1760. 

 223. Northern Phalarope. 



Phcdaropus lobatus (Linn.) Salvad. 1872. 



Seems to be the commonest species of Phalarope in Greenland, 

 and possibly very far to the northward. {Arct. Man.) Breeds on 

 islets in Ungava Bay and is common along the northern coast 

 of Labrador. {Turner^ Observed about a dozen in a small pond 

 on an island in James Bay, June i6th, 1896, where they were 

 evidently breeding. None were seen in the interior of Labrador. 

 {Spreadborough.) A migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Brunswick. 



In Quebec and Ontario it is a common migrant and is doubtless 

 common in summer in all parts of Hudson Bay, where itundoubt- 



