GALLINAGO MAJOR. 269 
GALLINAGO MAJOR (Gmelin). 
GREAT SNIPE. 
§ 4255. One-—From Mr. J. Green, 1844. 
§ 4256. One. 
From M. Nager-Donazain, 1847. 
§ 4257. One.—Bod6, Nordland, Norway, 1852. From 
Mr. Tristram, 1854. 
Mr. Tristram gave me this egg at Castle Eden, 25 August, 1854, 
and wrote upon it in my presence. 
(Mr. Tristram’s note on his finding this species in vast numbers on the coast 
of Nordland, especially near Bodo, is in ‘ The Zoologist ’ for 1853 (p. 3911). ] 
§ 4258. One—* Denmark,” 1856. From Dr. Kjerbélling. 
Of three bought at Copenhagen in July, 1856. 
§ 4259. Five—* Jylland, 1857.” From Dr. Kjzerbélling. 
Of six bought in 1857. 
§ 4260. Four.—Bodo, 27 June, 1857. ‘ Birdshot. L. M. K.” 
Mr. Alfred Newton and I sent Ludwig on an expedition from 
Tromso with the express purpose of finding this species and Totanus 
ochropus, and perhaps one or two others of Mr. Tristram’s rarities. 
I copy the following from Ludwig’s notes [translated] :— 
“T went to Bod6 and came there on the 26th (June) in the 
evening, and I got not to know anything of the place which is hight 
Rorstad, but here is a place a bit from the town hight Ronvik, and 
1 trowed it was that which was meant. Furthermore there is a 
marsh in [the] triangle to the east', a great marsh, and there are 
‘ [Ludwig's instructions, founded on information furnished by Mr. Tristram the 
preceding year, were to “ take the apex of an equilateral triangle whose base is a 
line between Bodo and Rorstad i Salten, and near that point, the second week in 
June, you ought to find Scolopax major breeding.” My. Tristram seems to have 
been misled by the map (Roosen’s) I shewed him. There is no place marked 
Rorstad on the Salten Fjord, but there is Rorstad Fjeld above it, and the 
proximity of the name as written on the map produced the confusion.—Ep. ] 
