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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



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having been collected, with three eggs, on Crane Island, Franklin 

 Bay, July 5, 1864, is still in the National Museum. 



We did not observe this species during our journeys, but have re- 

 cently received a specimen in winter plumage taken on the Mac- 

 kenzie 60 miles below Fort Providence October 4, 1904, by H. W. 

 J ones. 



Lobipes lobatus (Linn.). Northern Phalarope. 



The northern phalarope, an abundant breeder on the Barren 

 Grounds, passes through the more southern parts of the region in 

 spring and fall, sometimes occurring abundantly in certain localities. 

 During my return trip in 1904 I saw one on Great Slave Lake near the 

 Desmarais Islands July 29. The bird was swimming about in its 

 characteristic energetic manner, seeking food. 



In the museum at Fort Simpson I found two specimens collected 

 some years ago at Fort Rae. Captain Mills informs me that he has 

 frequently observed the species on the upper Mackenzie in the autumn. 



In the early autumn of 1896 J. Alden Loring observed the species 

 on the Athabaska at Jasper House. Alberta. Numbers alighted on 

 the water above rapids and allowed themselves to be carried down, 

 when they flew back and repeated the performance. He noted the 

 bird also at Sulphur Prairie, Grand Cache River, about TO miles 

 north of Jasper House, taking a specimen there September 12. 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway state that MacFarlane found this 

 species in great abundance between the edge of the wooded country 

 and the Arctic Sea [Franklin Bay], where more than 50 nests with 

 eggs were found from June IT into Jul}^" The bird catalogue 

 of the National Museum records specimens from Big Island and 

 Fort Rae. Frank Russell took one at Herschel Island July 14, 

 1894.^ Set on records the species from Sandhill Bay, Aylmer Lake, 

 where one was observed August 20, 190T.^ 



Steganopus tricolor Vieill. Wilson Phalarope. 



Richard King, naturalist to Back's Expedition to the mouth of 

 Great Fish River, claims to have taken this species near Artillery 

 Lake.*^ It is a common bird on the northern plains. Macoun, on 

 the authority of Dippie, states that it breeds at Buffalo Lake, Alberta ; 

 that Spreadborough found it nesting commonly from Indian Head, 

 Saskatchewan, to Edmonton ; and he records a specimen taken at the 

 latter point. « 



« Water Birds N. A., I, p. 335, 1884. 

 ^ Expl. in Far North, p. 258, 1898. 

 c Auk, XXV, p. 70, 1908. 



'^Narrative Journey to Arctic Ocean, I, p. 228, 1836. 

 e Cat. Canadian Birds, Part 1, p. 148, 1900. 



