100 NORTH AMEKICAN FAUNA. [No. 22, 



Hayes, Steel, and Hill rivers on our return, August 28 to September 3, 

 we found that many were still lingering there, and I saw several at 

 Duck Point, Playgreen Lake, on September 20. The catalogue of 

 birds in the U. S. National Museum collection contains the record of 

 a specimen taken at Moose Factory in 1881 by Walton Haydon. 



Numenius hudsonicus Lath. Hudsonian Curlew. 



■ First observed about 50 miles north of York Factory, where a 

 number were seen and one was shot July 19. Another was shot at 

 Fort Churchill July 28. Quite a number were seen on the shores of 

 Button Bay July 31, and to the north of that place on the following 

 daj^. We saw a few daily while we were encamped on the Barren 

 Grounds south of Cape Eskimo, August 10 to 13; and noted a few 

 more below Hubbart Point August 18, between Fort Churchill and 

 Cape Churchill August 22, and below the cape August 2J-. The birds 

 were usuallj- seen at low tide, when they flew about in small compa- 

 nies over the broad boulder-strewn flats in search of feeding grounds, 

 uttering a loud, clear whistle. During high tide thej' resorted to the 

 tundra and were less observable. 



Latham based his description of this species mainly on a specimen 

 received from Mr. Hutchins, probably from Severn River." Murray 

 recorded the species from Severn House.' 



Numenius borealis (Forst.). Eskimo Curlew. 



This species was first described by Forster from a specimen taken 

 at Albany Fort, Hudson Bay.'' It is recorded by Dr. Bell as abundant 

 at Fort Churchill in August, 1879.'' 



Squatarola sc[uatarola (Linn.). Black-bellied Plover. 



A specimen in winter plumage, evidently a bird of the year, was 

 killed on a small rocky island in Swampy Lake September 5. 



Forster recorded the species from Severn River;" Richardson from 

 Melville Peninsula, where he says it breeds;-^ and Bell from York 

 Factory. s" Clarke recorded two adults in summer plumage from Fort 

 Churchill.* 



In former years the various plovers, particularly this species and 

 the golden plover, were much hunted at the various posts on the Bay, 

 especially during their southward movement in August. 



"Index Ornithologicus, II, p. 712, 1790. (See also Latham, Syn. Suppl., I, p. 

 243, 1787.) 



i-Edin. New Phil. Journ. (new ser.), IX, p. 225, 1859. 



<:Phil. Trans., LXII, pp. 411, 431, 1772. 



f^Rept. Prog. Can. Geol. Surv., 1878-79, App. VI, p. 69c (1880). 



«Phil. Trans., LXII, p. 412, 1772. 



/Appendix to Parry's Second Voyage, p. 352, 1825 (1827). 



f/Bept. Prog. Can. Geol. Surv., 1882-3-4, App. Ill, p. 55DD (1885). 



A Auk, VII, p. 321, 1890. 



