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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



noted until Juh^ 24, Avlien a small flock was seen, and a male taken, 

 on the shore of the lake at Fort Kae. 



In 1903 we did not detect this species during the spring migration, 

 but the advance guard of the soutliAvard movement made its appear- 

 ance at Fort Eesolution on Jul}^ 13. Single birds were noted on 

 Grandin EiA^r August 3 and 5. 



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

 26 and took a single specimen. I took another on the following 

 day, when the species Avas common, and noted the bird nearly every 

 day up to June 1. 



First recorded from the region by Richardson, who described a 

 specimen taken at Great Bear Lake on May 24, 1826.« Eoss listed 

 it as having been taken at Fort Simpson, but as being rare.^ Baird, 

 Brewer, and Eidgway state that MacFarlane found it nesting on 

 Franklin Bay and on the Barren Grounds between there and Fort 

 Anderson, where nests were found between June 20 and July 10.^ 

 Specimens were sent to the Smithsonian Institution from Big Island 

 and Fort Good Hope. Sharpe records specimens in the British 

 Museum from Franklin Bay and Fort Simpson.^ 



Calidris leucophaea (Pallas). Sanderling. 



This cosmopolitan species migrates through the region now under 

 review in spring and fall. It passes northward in early summer, 

 breeds sparingly on the Arctic coast, but more commonly on the 

 islands of the Arctic Sea, and in autumn lingers in flocks on the 

 storm-swept shores of the larger lakes after most of the other sand- 

 pipers have dej)arted. AA^ien seen running along the sandy margins 

 of lake or river its singular stiif-legged gait, taken together with its 

 size and light color, serves to distinguish it even at a distance from 

 any of its allies. 



In 1903 I first noted this species at our camp on Great Bear Lake, 

 east of Leith Point, August 31, when several flocks were observed. 

 Numbers were seen there nearly every day to September 4, and 

 several specimens were taken. Three individuals were seen on the 

 shore 40 miles east of McYicar Bay September 13, and a few were 

 noted west of Manito Islands September 15, and near Fort Franklin 

 September 16. 



In the spring of 1904 I first saw the sanderling at Fort Simpson 

 on May 29, when a small flock was observed feeding along the river 

 shore, and one was shot. A few more were seen near the same place 



« Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 386, 1831. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 285, 1862. 

 ^ Water Birds N. A., I, p. 209, 1884. 

 ^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, p. 518, 1896. 



