440 THKOUGH THE MACKENZIE BASIN 



Mountains, in latitude 49° north, at Indian Head, Saskat- 

 chewan, and throughout Northern Alaska. The Ottawa 

 Museum contains nine specimen skins but no eggs thereof. 



239. Pectoral Sahdpipee — Actodromas maculata Vieill. 



We failed to discover any nests of this rather rare species. 

 A few birds were observed flying near Eort Anderson and 

 one or two were shot. In his Mackenzie River List of 

 Birds Mr. Boss says, " common to Fort Simpson." 



In the Ottawa National Museum there are two speci- 

 mens (but no eggs) of this sandpiper — one taken at Ottawa 

 in October, 1884, by Mr. Ernest White; the other shot by 

 Mr. W. iSpreadborough on Milk River, Alberta, on July 

 16th, 1895. 



240. White-eumped Sandpipee — Actodromas fusicollis 



VieiU. 



Several nests of this species were found on or near the 

 Arctic coast of Eranklin Bay. One of these, taken on 3rd 

 July, contained four considerably incubated eggs. Another, 

 discovered on the following day, held but three eggs. A 

 third, found in the Barren Grounds on 29th June, was, like 

 the rest, a shallow cavity in the ground lined with a few 

 decayed leaves containing four eggs, also having in them 

 large embryos. A fourth nest, obtained on the bank of a 

 small river, held four eggs whose contents were, however, in 

 a much less developed condition than the others. Sir John 

 Richardson says it is not infrequent on the shores of the 

 small lakes that skirt the Saskatchewan plains. Both 

 Turner and Spreadborough found them in large numbers 

 in Ungava Bay, Labrador. They probably breed from 

 Ungava to the north of Hudson Bay and thence westerly to 

 the lower Mackenzie River. Murdoch refers to the shooting 

 of two birds at Point Barrow, which is their only Alaskan 

 record. A pair taken in Toronto marsh by Mr. S. Herring 

 in October, 1884, is also the only record of them in the 

 Ottawa Mixseum. 



