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same locality in summer. This species is found in British Colum- 

 bia, from the International Boundary to Alaska, and on Vancouver 

 Island, where it breeds, and according to Brooks a few winter on 

 Lake Okanagan, B.C. Both Turner and Nelson report it of wide 

 distribution in Alaska, and Macfarlane found it breeding on the 

 Anderson River. 



Breeding Notes. — A few pairs still breed in the county of 

 Leeds, Ont. Early in June, 1892, a nest with four eggs was ob- 

 tained at " Black Pond" near Brockville ; on thegth, June 1896, 

 I saw one of these birds perched on a stump in a wet meadow ; 

 no doubt the female was nesting in the vicinity. The place where I 

 have noticed this species breeding most commonly was on the Mag- 

 dalen Islands. There it may still be said to be plentiful. I obtained 

 three eggs, incubated, early in June, 1897. I* breeds principally in 

 boggy places not far from the sea, and in the breeding season is 

 quite noisy and soon makes its presence known. The nest on the 

 Magdalen Islands is not, as a rule, placed in the wettest part of the 

 bog but near the edge of the growth of spruce, where a stunted tree 

 struggles to live here and there in the shaking bog. Alongside 

 one of these, or even under a branch, a nest may be found, in 

 which respect as far as the selection of a breeding-site goes, it 

 differs somewhat from its very near relative, the European Snipe. 

 {Rev. C.J. Young!) I am informed by Mr. John Burk, a farmer 

 near Rondeau, Lake Erie, and an accurate observer, that he has 

 of late years found several nests of this species near the marsh. 

 iyV. Saunders.) 



The favourite haunts of this bird are the open grassy sloughs or 

 bogs which intersect Manitoba. The position of the only nest of 

 this species that I found was in a slightly-elevated tussock or sod 

 in the middle of a wide muskeg. The nest consisted of a slight 

 hollow, with a few straws for lining and was raised only a few 

 inches above the water. This was in the third week in July, and 

 by the 27th of that month the four young ones were hatched and 

 immediately left the nest. {Seton-Tkompson.) 



In August, 1894, the writer saw a female and youngbirds of this 

 species in the marsh at St. Patrick's Street bridge, Ottawa, Ont.; 

 early in May, 1 890, he found a nest beside a log in a small bog 

 close to the Canadian Pacific Railway water-tank at Revel- 

 stoke, B. C. The nest was close to the water and any one 

 walking along the railway could see the bird, but she hatched out 



