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442 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
Lockhart many years ago secured both skins and eggs thereof.
On the 15th of June, 1897, Professor Macoun came upon
a small flock at a grassy pond in Alberta, about thirty miles
from Calgary and near the foothills of tbe Rocky Mountains,
and from the actions of the birds it seemed certain that
they were breeding, but no nests were found. The Museum
at Ottawa contains seven skin specimens and one set of eggs
taken at Fort George, James Bay, Hudson Bay, in June,
1888, by Chief Trader Miles Spencer of the Hudson's Bay
Company's service.
262. BUFF- BREASTED SANDPIPER— Tryngites subruficollis
( Vieill.).
This species is common in the Barren Grounds east of
the Wilmot Horton River and on the Arctic coast. Between
the 26th of June and the 9th of July upwards of twenty sets
of eggs were taken, and there were four in every nest, which
was but a slight depression in the soil scantily lined with
withered leaves and dried grasses. When the nest was
approached the female parent usually made a low flight to
a short distance. On the Mackenzie Mr. Ross reports this
bird to be rare. Mr. Murdoch found it common at Point
Barrow, where one of the nests found by him contained five
eggs, while Mr. Nelson saw but few specimens at the Yukon
mouth. On the other hand, Mr. Fannin states that it is
tolerably common throughout British Columbia and also a
resident. There are no eggs and only one skin, purchased
with the Holman collection, said to have been taken at
Toronto, Ontario, in the National Museum at the Dominion
capital.
265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW— Numenius Hudsonicus Latham.
We never came across this curlew on our several eastern
collecting expeditions from Fort Anderson to Franklin Bay,
nor on the Arctic coast itself, but on the other hand it must-be
fairly abundant in the " Barrens" to the west of the
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| OCR | 442 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN Lockhart many years ago secured both skins and eggs thereof. On the 15th of June, 1897, Professor Macoun came upon a small flock at a grassy pond in Alberta, about thirty miles from Calgary and near the foothills of tbe Rocky Mountains, and from the actions of the birds it seemed certain that they were breeding, but no nests were found. The Museum at Ottawa contains seven skin specimens and one set of eggs taken at Fort George, James Bay, Hudson Bay, in June, 1888, by Chief Trader Miles Spencer of the Hudson's Bay Company's service. 262. BUFF- BREASTED SANDPIPER— Tryngites subruficollis ( Vieill.). This species is common in the Barren Grounds east of the Wilmot Horton River and on the Arctic coast. Between the 26th of June and the 9th of July upwards of twenty sets of eggs were taken, and there were four in every nest, which was but a slight depression in the soil scantily lined with withered leaves and dried grasses. When the nest was approached the female parent usually made a low flight to a short distance. On the Mackenzie Mr. Ross reports this bird to be rare. Mr. Murdoch found it common at Point Barrow, where one of the nests found by him contained five eggs, while Mr. Nelson saw but few specimens at the Yukon mouth. On the other hand, Mr. Fannin states that it is tolerably common throughout British Columbia and also a resident. There are no eggs and only one skin, purchased with the Holman collection, said to have been taken at Toronto, Ontario, in the National Museum at the Dominion capital. 265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW— Numenius Hudsonicus Latham. We never came across this curlew on our several eastern collecting expeditions from Fort Anderson to Franklin Bay, nor on the Arctic coast itself, but on the other hand it must-be fairly abundant in the " Barrens" to the west of the |
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