CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. I5I 



the St. Lawrence valley. A few birds breed in the vicinity of the 

 lake near Macintosh Mills, Ont. I met with a nest on June 3rd, 

 1891. It was made on a little mossy hillock in a small clump of 

 second-growth trees, near a large grove, and at no great distance 

 from the edge of the lake. At that date the eggs — four in number 

 — were greatly incubated. They exactly resembled those of the 

 old-world species. {Rev. C.J. Young) On May 20th, 1895, Mr. 

 Robert Johnson of the Geological Survey found a nest- of this 

 species in a piece of swampy ground on the left of the Chelsea 

 road, south of the crossing of the Gatineau Valley Railway. It 

 was on a hummock in the swamp and was merely a depression 

 lined with grass and sheltered by cedar bushes. The locality is 

 about four miles from Ottawa. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two specimens, one presented by Dr.^ Charles Saunders, the 

 other purchased in 1885 with the Holman collection. 



LXXXVII. GALLINAGO Leach. 1816. 



229. European Snipe. 



Gcdlifiago gallinago (Linn.) Licht. 1854. 



One received from Dr. Paulsen in 1845, but the species has been 

 so often ^observed in Greenland that it may very likely breed 

 there. {Arct. Man.') This species and the next are, according 

 to Winge {Greenland Birds, p. 176) about equally numerous in 

 Greenland. Neither is common. He thinks they may perhaps 

 breed. 



230. Wilson's Snipe. 



Gallinago delicata (Ord) A. O. U. List. 1886. 



A common summer migrant and breeds in Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and abundantly on 

 all the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as in Quebec 

 and eastern Ontario. Spreadborough found it breeding in a 

 marsh at Moose Factory, James Bay, and at Great Whale River, 

 Hudson Bay, where he saw one with a young brood in July, 1896. 



In the west, it is found throughout the whole prairie region, 

 especially in all marshes in the wooded country, but never in con- 

 siderable numbers. Seldom more than two pairs are seen in the 



