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occurs on the island, but my accident prevented my thoroughly 

 searching situations likely to produce this species. It would only 

 occur as a summer migrant. 



Wilson'^s Snipe, Gallinago Wilsoni (Temm.) — A common sum- 

 mer migrant, arriving generally about the last week in April, and 

 soon commences breeding. When the female is sitting on her nest 

 the male frequently rises in the air, drumming and making a 

 peculiar rushing noise with its tail, which may be heard a con- 

 siderable distance. 



Grai/ Snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin), — A summer 

 migrant. The remarks appended to the proceeding species appear 

 equally applicable to this. 



Grai/ Back; Rohin Snipe, or Knot, Tringa canutus (^Linn.')— 

 Visits Newfoundland only in its periodical migrations. 



Purple Sandpiper, Tringa maritina, Brunnich. — A summer 

 migrant, but rather rare at Cow Head; probably more common on 

 the southern shores of the island. 



American Dunlin, T. alpina. var. americana, Cassin. — A sum- 

 mer migrant, but much more abundant in the fall of the year. 



American Jach Snipe, T. maculata, Vieill. — A summer 

 migrant, and tolerably common. 



Least Sandpiper, T. wilsonii, Nuttall. — A common summer 

 migrant. 



Bonaparte' s Sandpiper, T. bonapartii, ScJilegel. — A common 

 summer migrant, collecting in flocks in the fall of the year at the 

 seaside, and generally so tame that a dozen to twenty may often 

 be killed at a shot. This remark applies also to some other allied 

 species of sandpipers and small ringed plovers which congregate 

 on the coast every autumn, from some flocks of which upwards of 

 sixty have been killed at a shot ; giving some idea of the im- 

 mense quantities of these little birds. The pretty little pigeon 

 hawk (^Falco columharius) is a cruel attendant on these flocks of 

 small Tringae. Professor Newton informs me that " Tringa bona- 

 partii is the Schinz's Sandpiper of Yarrell and other English 

 authors, though not the true T. schinzi." 



Sanderling, Calidris arenaria (^Linn.') — Visits Newfoundland 

 periodically : abundantly in the fall, but very sparingly, if at all, 

 in the spring. 



Semipilmated Sandpiper, Ereunetes petrificatus, Illiger,—^ 

 Another common species on the coast in the fall. 



Stilt Sandpiper, Macropalama himantopus (Bon.) — Not com= 



