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An Additional Note on the Genus Macrorhamphus. — It is well to 
remember in connection with the breeding range of M. griseus given in 
my recent paper on this genus (Auk, XVIII, pp. 157-162), that in ‘ Fauna 
Boreali-Americana,’ Swainson and Richardson state that the species breeds 
from the shores of Lake Superior northward, a fact which at that time 
was probably true. I am also lately in receipt of, and here permitted to 
record, two young specimens of M. g. scolofaceus (Nos. 167026, 167027 U. 
S. Nat. Mus.) through the kindness of Mr. Edward A. Preble. They were 
taken by him at Button Bay, near Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, on July 
31, 1900. The Dowitchers were, he writes me, “■ abundant in the pools on 
grassy tundra,” and were moving southward. The fact of their presence 
in such numbers would go to show that this subspecies, after breeding, 
ranges over the country eastward to the shore of Hudson Bay before 
migrating, or even perhaps breeds as far east as this point. It is, I think, 
not improbable that the extreme eastern limit of their breeding range will 
prove to be Hudson Bay rather than the 1 10th meridian, and that M. griseus 
in the breeding season is confined to the east and north of the Bay. In 
any case the occurrence of this form near Button Bay explains why they 
not uncommonly reach the Atlantic coast on migrations. — Reginald 
Heber Howe, Tr., Longwood, Mass. 
Auk, A VIII, July., 1901, p- 
