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



April (Hargitt 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. Valkeaswaard, Holland, 29th Seebohm Coll. 



May (H. Seebohm). 



2. Holland. Lord Lilford [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}. 



1. Yarkand (J. S.}. Hume Coll. 



4. Yenesei Valley, lat. 67 N., 6th Seebohm Coll. 

 July (H. Seebohm). 



Gallinago delicata (Orel). 

 (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



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



$ Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 188 (1884). 

 Scolopax gallinago wilsoni, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 48fr 



(1887). 

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



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 642 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. \. 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 1-07 to 1-12 in breadth. 



2. North America. Old Collection. 



3. Yukon, Alaska, 3rd June (R. Ken- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



nicott: Smiths. Inst.}. 



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

 W. Tolman: Henshaw Coll.). 



Gallinago frenata (Uliger). 



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

 54) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida, 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 : 1*6 by 1*1 ; 1'57 by 1'15. 



2. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic Seebohm Coll. 

 ( Capt. Harrison). 



