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4. Knockie, Inverness-shire, 26th Seebohm Coll. 

 April {TIargitt Coll.). 



3. Knockie, 26th April {Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



4. Rush Meadow, 30th April (Pearce). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Newton Stacey, Hants, 14th April Seebohm Coll. 



(Turk). 

 4. Heffleton, Dorsetshire (P. God- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



man). 

 4. Valkenswaard, Holland, 29th Seebohm Coll. 



May [H. Seehohm). 

 2. Holland. Lord Lil+brd [P.]. 



2. Karasuando, Lapland {J. Wolley). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Riga, Baltic Sea {Russow). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Yarkand, Central Asia, 12th June Hume Coll. 



(J. Scully). 

 L Yarkand (J. S.). Hume Coll. 



4. Yenessi Valley, lat. 67° N., 6th Seebohm Coll. 



Jidy {H. Seebohm). 



Gallinago delicata (Ord). 

 (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Gallinago wilsoni, Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 475 (1874); Baird, Brewer 



^- Ridgiv. Wafer Birds N. Am. i. p. 188 (1884). 

 Scolopax gallinngo wilsoni, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida, p. 486 



(1887). 

 Gallinago delirata, Nelson, Rejwrt Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 100 (1887) ; 



Shar2}e, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 642 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 165 



(1899). 



The eggs of the North-American, or "Wilson's, Snipe in the Collec- 

 tion resemble many of those of the Common Snipe. They measure 

 from 1-53 to 1-6 in length, and from I'OT to 1"12 in breadth. 



2. North America. Old Collection. 



3. Yukon, Alaska, 3rd June (P. Keji- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



nicott : Smiths. Inst.). 

 2. Winnebaga, Illinois, 19th May (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 W. Tolman: Henshmv Coll.). 



Gallinago frenata (niir/er). 



Scolopax frenata, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ix. fig. 3, a, b (1845- 

 54) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriid(p, p. 494 (1887). 



Gallinago frenata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 646 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 165 (1899). 



The two eggs of the Brazilian Snipe in the Collection can be 

 matched by eggs of the Common Snipe. They are olive-buff, 

 marked, almost entirely at the broad end, with roundish spots of 

 rich umber-brown and pale underlying purple. They measure 

 respectively : I'B by 1*1 ; 1"57 by 1'15. 



2. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic Seebohm Coll. 

 ( Capt. Harrison). 



