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vious years, one having been killed near Halifax on January 

 30th, 1870 (Jones, American Naturalist, iv., 253), and another 

 captured in April, 1889 (vide Trans. Inst. Nat Sc., vii., 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, 1 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 llth, 

 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. 



L APWING (Van ellus 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 



