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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



the species passed nortliAA arc! in considerable numbers during June.° 

 Specimens from Fort Anderson, Fort Eae, and Big Island are still 

 in the National Museum. 



Tringa canutus Linn. Knot. 



Edward Sabine, probably referring particularly to Melville Island, 

 says that this species breeds in great abundance on the North Georgia 

 Islands.^ 



Arquatella maritima (Briinn.). Purple Sandpiper. 



A sandpiper identified as this species was seen on the shore of Great 

 Bear Lake a few miles east of its outlet on September 16, 1903. I had 

 a good view of the bird at a distance of a iew yards. At this time all 

 the other sandpipers, with the exception of a very few belated sander- 

 lings, had departed southward. 



Armstrong states that this species was frequently shot at Mercy 

 Bay, Banks Land, early in June, 1852.^ J. C. Ross records a few at 

 Port Bowen in early June, 1825,^^ and near Fury Point. ^ McCormick 

 observed one in Wellington Channel August 23, 1852.^ Russell has 

 recorded specimens from Herschel Island and Fort Chipewyan,^ but 

 they prove, on examination, to have been incorrectly identified. 



Pisobia maciilata (YieilL). Pectoral Sandpiper. 



This is a rather common migrant in the wooded portion of the 

 region now under review, and it breeds in some parts of the Barren 

 Grounds, though MacFarlane failed to find its nest in the Anderson 

 River region. 



In 1903 we first saw this species near Sturgeon River May 12, and 

 we saw a few 20 miles south of Athabaska Landing May 14. My 

 brother and Gary saw a flock of five, apparently passing southward, 

 near the mouth of Willow Lake River, near Fort Wrigley, July 19. 

 On their return trip they saw six at Cascade Rapid August 14 ; tw^o 

 at Pelican Rapid August 25 ; a few at Athabaska Landing on Aug- 

 ust 31 and September 2, and several flocks at the same place Septem- 

 ber 3. I took a single bird, the only one seen, at my camp on Great 

 Bear Lake, east of Leith Point, August 29. A late straggler was seen 

 on the Mackenzie a few miles above the mouth of the Blackwater 

 October 7. 



In the spring of 1904 I first saw this species at Fort Simpson May 

 16, observing three individuals about a small grass-bordered pond 



o Expl. in Far North, pp. 258, 259, 1898. 



^ Snppl. to Appendix Parry's First Voyage, p. cci, 1824. 



^ Narrative Discovery Nortliwest Passage, p. 525, 1857. 



^ Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 101, 1826. 



^Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xxxii, 1835. 



f McCormicli's Voyages, II, p. 121, 1884. 



s Expl. in Far North, p. 259, 1898. 



