258 NOTES ON NOVA SCOTIAN ZOOLOGY—PIERS. 
vious years, one having been killed near Halifax on January 
30th, 1870 (Jones, American Naturalist, iv., 258), and another 
captured in April, 1889 (vide Trans. Inst. Nat. Sc., vit., 468). 
It not unfrequently comes as far north as the New England 
States, but in Canada has only been reported from our own 
province, New Brunswick and Ontario, in all of which localities 
its occurrence is merely casual. 
In 1896, I saw a adult female which had been captured alive on 
Devil’s Island, Halifax Harbour, about January 16th of that 
year, the bird had evidently struck the lighthouse on the island 
and fell to the ground disabled. It was kept alive for about 
twenty-five days when it died and was mounted by Mr. Walter 
Brett. §S. Fraser of Halifax, who now possesses the bird, also 
has another of the same species, which he tells me was found 
dead at Chezzetcook, Halifax County, in the same week as that 
in which the above-mentioned specimen was taken. 
WILSON’S SNIPE (Gallinago delicata). About October 11th, 
1894, there was shot at Canning, King’s County, a Snipe whose 
colours were so very light and tinged with gray, as to constitute 
partial albinism. It was mounted by Mr. Purcell for Mr. Dickie, 
of Canning. On December 3rd, 1894, I noted a Snipe at 
Halifax—the latest date on which I have seen the species. 
There was about five inches of snow on the ground at the time. 
The last Snipe of the regular body was noted on November 21st 
of that year. I have been told that individual birds occasion- 
ally remain very late in the season. 
LAPWING (Vanellus vanellus). This is another purely acci- 
dental visitor in our province. The species is a native of the 
northern portions of the eastern hemisphere, although it occasion- 
nally has braved the perils of the Atlantic and been found in 
Greenland. 
On March 17th, 1897, an individual of this species was found, 
lying dead, on the sand of the shore at Ketch Harbour, near 
Halifax, N. S. It was very thin and death had evidently 
