Second Addendum to List of Birds Ascertained to Occur within ten 

 miles from Point de Monts, Province of Quebec, Canada ; based chiefly 

 upon the Notes of Napoleon A. Comeau. — Mr. Comeau has sent me 

 skins of the following-named species, taken by him at Godbout, and not 

 previously recorded from that locality : 



157. Saxicola cenanthe. Shot May 18, 1884. 



Auk, I, Jtay, 1884. p. X<i6' 



A second specimen of the Wheatear {Saxicola cenantlie) was taken 

 at Godbout, September 19, 1884, and was exhibited by Mr. Comeau 

 at the late meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. — C. Hart 

 Merriam, Locu.'it Grove, Netv York. Auk, 2, Jan. , 1885. p. 1/3 



Probable Breeding of the Wheatear {Saxicola cenanthe) on the North 

 Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — I have before me three specimens of 

 Saxicola cenanthe, all of which were shot at Godbout, on the north shore 

 of the St. Lawrence, near the point where the river widens into the Gulf, 

 by Mr. Napoleon A. Comeau. Two others were seen, making five indi- 

 viduals noted within thirteen months. Following is the complete record : 

 May 18, 1884, one shot. Sept. 19, 1884, male shot. May 24, 1885, one 

 seen. June 9, 1885. female shot and mate seen. 



Mr. Comeau writes nie that in the female shot June 9, "the eggs were 

 pretty well developed." lie adds, " I think there can be no question now 

 about the bird breeding on this coast." 



It is safe to infer that the five individuals seen were but a small portion 

 of those actually present along the coast; hence the species can no longer 

 be regarded as "an accidental straggler from Europe." Moreover, the 

 finding of two birds (presumably a pair) at Godbout so late as the 9th of 

 June, taken in connection with the statement that the female contained 

 ova which "were pretty well developed," point strongly to the conclusion 

 that they would have nested at no very great distance. And this conclu- 

 sion is strengthened by the fact that the Wheatear is known to breed in 

 June' at Disco, Greenland,* fifteen hundred miles north of Godbout.— 

 C. Hart Merriam, Locust Grove, N. T. 



Auk, 2, July, 1886. p. 3 0 6^ 



* Fabricius says of it : "Nidificat raense Junio inter lapides majores, gramine arido 

 cum muscis at plumis raris intermixtis," etc. (Fauna Grcenlandica, 1780, p. 123) ; and 

 nearly a century later (July 19, 1875), Sir George S. Nares found "several parties of 

 young Wheafears .... flying about the rocks near the shore" at Prouen, nearly two 

 hundred miles north of Disco (Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea, Vol. I, 1878 

 p. 29). 



Additional Notes on the Probable Breeding of Saxicola cenanthe near 

 Godbout, Province of Quebec, Canada. —In ' The Auk' for July, 1885, 

 Dr. C. Hart Merriam recorded several specimens of the Wlieatear taken 

 by me on the north shore of the St. Lawrence during May and June of 

 1SS4 and 1885, Since then I have secured several additional specimens 

 which throw more light on the occurence of the species near Godbout. I 

 shot a young male September 19, 1885, and another specimen November 

 9, 1S86. None were observed in 18S7 or 1888. September 30, 1S89, while 

 visiting the Caribou Islands, I saw five of these birds together, but hav- 

 ing no gun was unable to secure specimens. The next morning I saw 

 one hopping around the house where I was staying, and upon calling the 

 attention of my host, Mr. Chas. Jordan, to the bird he informed me that 

 he had noticed a pair of them several times but was not certain of the 

 date when he had first seen them — probably about the end of August. 

 I have since heard that his son shot two or three. October 17, 1889, 1 shot 

 a pair of Wheatears at Godbout, both exceedingly fat; one of these was 

 sent to Dr. Merriam. Two days later (October 19) I saw a single bird 

 but was unable to secure it. 



Caribou Islands being only twenty miles east of Godbout it is quite 

 possible that some if not all of the birds observed here during October 

 were the same I noticed there. It can hardly be expected that I liave seen 

 all that have passed this point, and several may have occurred along the 

 north shore both east and west without being recorded, but I think Saxi- 

 cola cenanthe has been observed here often enough, and at dates close 

 enough to its breeding season, to entitle it to a place in the list of birds 

 breeding in this vicinity.— Nap. A. Comeau, Godbout, Quebec. 



^T3k, iriL July. 1890. p, A^V, 



