CO BuTURLiN, Correct Name of the Pacific Dnnliu. W"^ 



Start, the Black-and-White Warbler. The Yellow Warbler appears 

 at New Orleans from further north about the middle of July, and 

 by the last week of the month Yellow Warblers are present by 

 hundreds. Even when appearing in waves in the spring, the Yel- 

 low Warblers are always restricted in their numbers at that season. 

 As for the Black-and-White Warbler and the Redstart they are 

 rarities at New Orleans in spring. Not so after the first of August. 

 They are always to be found in reasonable numbers in the woods 

 after that date and sometimes in large numbers. The Tennessee 

 and Magnolia Warblers do not agree with the foregoing in being 

 particularly early fall migrants, but they do agree in being the most 

 abundant of our birds in the fall, and among the rarest in spring. 

 The time of their arrival in fall approximates September 20. 



THE CORRECT NAME OF THE PACIFIC DUNLIN. 



BY S. A. BUTURLIN. 



When publishing, in 1902, Part I of my ' Limicolae of the Rus- 

 sian Empire,' it was not without much hesitation that I proposed 

 to give a new name to the Fantail Snipe of East Siberia,^ as 

 Vieillot's old one, Scolopax sakhalina, was a very suggestive one. 

 But Vieillot's ' Nouveau Dictionnaire ' was not to be found in 

 Russia (not even in the Academical Library), and as H. Seebohm, 

 R. B. Sharpe and others quote " Sc. sakhalina " invariably with 

 a " ? " , I preferred to give a new name to the East-Siberian 

 Snipe. 



Through the extreme kindness of Mr. Charles W. Richmond,. 



^Scolopax (Gallinago) gallinago raddei nests from 'S'enesei eastward ; differs 

 from Sc. {G.) gallinago Linn, in having more white on the wing-lining and 

 axillaries ; the chest not so mottled with brown ; feathers of the upper parts 

 somewhat more mottled with rufous ; the sandy buff edges of the scapulars 

 and the feathers of the upper back much broader, some .08-. 1 6 inch broad ;. 

 pale central stripe along the crown also broader. 



