CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 1 89 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight specimens. ; two taken on Toronto Island by Mr. S. 

 Herring ; the others at Indian Head, Assa., Edmonton, Alta., 

 Revelstoke and Spence's Bridge, B.C., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



Of eggs we have several sets taken at Indian Head, Assa.,, 

 June 27th, 1892, and Edmonton, Alta., May 19th, 1897, ^Y Mr. W.. 

 Spreadborough ; and others from Reaburn and Grenfel, Man. 



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„274. Semipalmated Plover. 



CEgialitis semipalmaia Bonap. 1838. 



This species is a summer migrant in Newfoundland, Labrador 

 and the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, breeding more or 

 less abundantly. In Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward 

 Island, Quebec and Ontario it is reported as a migrant only ; yet, 

 as Mr. Young shows, it breeds in Ontario, and doubtless in the 

 other provinces also. In Manitoba and eastern Assiniboia it is a 

 common migrant, and breeds sparingly. The writer saw young 

 birds of this species at the salt springs at the head of Lake Winni- 

 pegoosis on 22nd July, x88i. 



This bird may be said to make its summer home and bring 

 forth its young from Ungava Bay on the northeast coast of Lab- 

 rador to Alaska on Norton Sound. It is, however, more plentiful 

 east of the Mackenzie than west of it. It is known only as a 

 rare migrant in British Columbia, and not known to breed. 



Breeding Notes. — This bird is found every fall and spring 

 on the gravelly bars at the foot of Amherst Island, Lake Ontario. 

 There, on the 24th of June, 1895, ^ found a nest containing four 

 fresh eggs. It was built on a gravelly beach, at no great distance 

 from the water, amongst a spring growth of a little grass and 

 sedge, and in the early spring would probably have been within 

 reach of the high water. I met with two pairs of these birds at 

 the Magdalen Islands in June, 1897, but could not locate the nest 

 though I knew they were breeding. {Rev.. C.J. Young) 



This bird is quite common on parts of the Arctic coast and 

 along the Anderson and Lockhart rivers, as well as in the coun- 

 try between Fort Anderson anjd Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie 

 River. Most of the twenty nests taken contained four eggs, and 

 several but two or three. When closely approached, the female 



