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eontaining two eggs on the border of the Baird glacierj 

 Thomas Bay, Alaska. There was no pretence of a nest, only 

 a hollow in the ground. 



222. Red Phalaeope — Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.). 



This species is fairly abundant along the shores of Frank- 

 lin Bay, where nests were obtained amid marshy flats in 

 the first week of July, 1864, and again in July, 1865. It 

 abounds and breeds on the ISTorth Georgian Islands and Mel- 

 ville Peninsula, and was often seen by northern expeditions 

 swimming in the sea far from land. 



IN'elson says it breeds abundantly on all the coasts and 

 islands and far into the interior of Northern Alaska. Mur- 

 dock also found it one of the commonest birds at Point 

 Barrow. The nest is a slight depression in the ground and 

 there is rarely any lining beyond a few withered leaves. In 

 number the eggs are usually three or four. 



There are two specimens, taken in Toronto marsh by Mr. 

 S. Herring, but no eggs, in the Ottawa Museum! 



223. NoETHEEi*r Phal^eope — Phalaropus lohatus (Linn.). 



This species is met with in great abundance during the 

 breeding season in the wooded country and in the Barren 

 Grounds right on to the Polar Sea, where it is, however, not 

 very numerous. The nest is similar to that of the red phala- 

 rope, being a mere depression in the ground lined with a 

 few dry leaves and a sprinkling of dry grasses, and it is 

 almost invariably situated on the margin of small pools or 

 sheets of water. Upwards of seventy nests were secured by 

 us at Fort Anderson — the number of eggs to a set being 

 always four. Although the female parent usually left her 

 nest when closely approached, both birds would sometimes 

 exhibit much uneasiness and utter vociferous cries of dis- 

 tress while we remained in its vicinity. Said to be common 

 along the Labrador coast, in Hudson Bay, near the Eocky 



