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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



I NO. 27. 



Island, Albert Edward Bay, Victoria Land, August 15, 1851, when 

 they were migrating toward the southeast.* Kennicott noted the 

 species arriving in large flocks at Fort Resolution May 23, 1860.'^ 

 Ross listed it as abundant in the Mackenzie River region north to the 

 Arctic coast, and as having been collected at Fort Simpson.'' Mac- 

 Farlane found it abundant throughout the Barren Grounds in the 

 Anderson River region, discovering upward of ITO nests.* Russell 

 records two specimens, one taken at Fort Chipewyan June 1, 1893, 

 and one at Herschel Island August 13, 1894, on which date the species 

 arrived from the northwest.^ Macoun records two specimens taken 

 at Edmonton in May, 1897, by Spreadborough ; ^ and J. Alden Loring 

 reported that he saw three at the same place September 23, 1894, and 

 took one. The bird catalogue of the National Museum records speci- 

 mens from Fort Rae, Fort Resolution, Big Island, Fort Halkett, La 

 Pierre House, and Fort Simpson, one from the latter locality having 

 been taken September 10, 1860. Two specimens, one from Big Island, 

 and another, a male, taken at Fort Simpson May 26, 1860, are still 

 in the collection. Reed records eggs taken at Peel River, Arctic 

 America, June 1, 1898, by C. E. mittaker.^ 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linn.). Killdeer. 



This widely distributed species occurs regularly, though not com- 

 monly, north to the region of Great Slave Lake and in all proba- 

 bility farther. We saw three individuals about a marshy spot on the 

 plains 15 miles north of Edmonton May 1, 1901. 



In 1903 we noted the killdeer near Edmonton May 12, found it 

 common along our route a few miles north of Sturgeon River May 

 13, and saw a few 60 miles north of Edmonton May 14. It was next 

 observed at Smith Landing June 12, three being seen on the flat near 

 the post. Two or three, the last individuals noted, were seen at Fort 

 Resolution June 25. 



Specimens of both birds and eggs were received by the Smith- 

 sonian from Lesser Slave Lake, where Strachan Jones collected them 

 in 1868. Macoun records specimens of the birds from Edmonton, 

 as well as eggs taken by Spreadborough at the same place. May 19, 

 1897.^^ 



'^Jonrn. Royal Geog. Soc, p. 91, 1852. 



* Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, p. 171, 1869. 



^Xat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 284, 1862. 



<^Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 429, 1891. 



^Expl. in Far Nortli, p. 259, 1898. 



^Cat. Canadian Birds, Part I, p. 187, 1900. 



fi'X. A. Birds' Eggs, p. 127, 1904. 



^Cat. Canadian Birds, Part I, p. 189, 1900. 



