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Phalaropus fulicarius is also mentioned as seen in high 
northern latitudes by the Arctic Expeditions; but simply on 
this claim I should not have included it in this list, had I not 
myself received specimens from Hudson's Bay in its fine 
breeding-plumage. 
97. Gallinago wilsonii. 
My specimen ( f Ibis/ vol. iv. p. 9) is considered to be of this 
species of Snipe, to which also Prof. Baird refers Scolopax 
drummondii and S. leucurus of the ‘ Fauna Bor.-Am.' In all the 
true Snipes which I shot in the interior, I never noticed any 
distinctions to make me suspect more than one species. In the 
neighbourhood of Fort Carlton I did not observe the Snipe before 
May; while the last seen on the Lower Saskatchawan in the 
autumn was on the 1st of October. At Bed Biver Settlement 
I found it on the 29th of April; but as that was in a late spring, 
I should imagine that it usually arrives earlier. This Snipe 
performs the same aerial evolutions which have been observed in 
the English bird. I remarked that this was usually done about 
sunset; and I have known it continued till an hour and a half 
later. The noise which the bird makes on these occasions I 
can only compare to quickly repeated switches (quicker than 
can be done by the hand) of a withe or cane in the air, which 
is repeated every half-minute or minute, but with occasional 
longer intervals. The duration of the sound is about three 
seconds, and is made (how I do not know, but am inclined to 
believe it is by the quill-feathers of the wings) as the bird 
descends rapidly in a vertical direction. I have known this to 
be done also in mid-day. These observations refer to the end of 
April and May, which is the love-season. 
Macrorhamphus griseus. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus. 
I did not preserve a specimen of the Bed-breasted Snipe; but 
I examined three which were shot out of a flock of six, near Fort 
Carlton, in the third week in May. They were all females, and 
measured 12 in. in length, 5f to 5-J in. in the wing, and 2f to 
2| in. along the ridge of the bill. In the ‘ Fauna Bor.-Am.' M. 
griseus is recorded from Great Bear Lake, under the name of 
