. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part I, water birds, gallinaceous birds, and pigeons, including the following orders : pygopodes, longipennes, tubinares, steganopodes, anseres, herodiones, paludicolæ, limicolæ, gallinæ, and columbæ. Water-birds; Birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. m Of a hollow in the sand lined abundantly with dark down The €Sfgs were very large and of a deep, rich, buff colour. The bird sat very close upon the nest and did not fly up until I almost trod upon her It appears to be a late breeder, nesting late in Tune on the .slands of l
. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part I, water birds, gallinaceous birds, and pigeons, including the following orders : pygopodes, longipennes, tubinares, steganopodes, anseres, herodiones, paludicolæ, limicolæ, gallinæ, and columbæ. Water-birds; Birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. m Of a hollow in the sand lined abundantly with dark down The €Sfgs were very large and of a deep, rich, buff colour. The bird sat very close upon the nest and did not fly up until I almost trod upon her It appears to be a late breeder, nesting late in Tune on the .slands of lakes Mani.:oba and Winnipeg. Mr. Neuman sent me an egg of this bird which he took from a female he had shot at Swan LaKe, Northern Alberta, on June 25th, 189;. (Rah^] It breeds in large numbers throughout the region under review as several nests were found in the "Barrens," some near the for and a few on the Lower Anderson and in other parts of the wooded sections; these were always depressions in the ground, hned with down, feathers and dry grasses, and pLcd contiguous to ponds or sheets of fresh water, frequently amid clumps of small spruce or dwarf willow and fairly well conceded rom v^w. The number of eggs found in a nest^aried between five and eight. {Macfarlmie.) "ciween MUSEUM SPECIMENS. Two specimens one taken in Toronto marsh and the other shot near Indian Head. May 1892. by Mr. W. Spreadborough 166. Surf Scoter. Sea Coot. Oidemiaprespicillata (Linn.) Steph. 1824. A few specimens obtained from the Danisli settlements in Greenland. ^Arct. Man.) Breeding sparingly along the coas of Labrador. {Turner) Common along the coast of NewfoTnd and especially during the breeding season. {Reeks) Mig ant alont and River St. Lawrence. It ,s a rare migrant near Ottawa Ont but more coiwmon on Lake Ontario. ' Rare in Hudson Strait, but quite common from Caoe f Gulf in Hudson Bay. June, 1896 (^^i^w^ This IS a common species on the arctic coast ^
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