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other parts forwarded to the National Museum by Mr. R.S. Allen for 
identification. 
I have a cutting from a Richmond, Virginia, paper, name and date 
unknown, which notes the occurrence in New Kent County of four Wood 
Ibises, one of which was shot by Mr. W. J. Taylor and the head and wing 
exhibited in Richmond. The date was evidently the summer of 1893. 
Two, an adult anda young, were killed in Washington, July 2, 1892, as 
previously mentioned in ‘The Auk,’ (X, 1893, p. 91).— WILLIAM PALMER, 
Washington, D. C. 
A North American Snipe New to the A. O. U. List. — Swainson in Sw. 
and Rich., Fn. Bor.-Am., II, 1831, p. 501, describes Scolopax leucurus sp.n., 
from Hudson Bay, and says that “a single specimen of this bird in fine 
and perfect plumage, exists in the British Museum.” It isa large species 
with 16 rectrices, whereof the three outer pairs are almost entirely white. 
Swainson’s type is still extant in the British Museum, and has been 
identified with Gallinago major by Dr. Sharpe, who cites S. leucurus 
among the synonyms of this species, and catalogues Swainson’s type from 
‘‘Hudson’s Bay” (Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, p. 628 and p. 631). 
The specimen appears as one of a large lot acquired by the British 
Museum by purchase from the Hudson Bay Company many years ago, to 
none of which does any doubt of locality attach; and as there is obviously 
no reason to call Dr. Sharpe’s identification in question, we may rely upon 
the record for the following addition to our Check-List: 
{230.1.] Gallinago major (Gm.). 
Greater Snipe. 
Scolopax major GM. Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, p. 661. 
Gallinago major Kocn, Syst. Baier. Orn. 1816, p. 313. 
Geoc. Dist. — Europe, Asia and Africa. Accidental in North America 
(‘Hudson Bay”). : 
There may be a question about the specific name of this bird, under our 
Procrustean rules. According to Dr. Sharpe’s synonymy, it is Scolopax 
media Frisch, 1763, and Gallinago media Gerini, 1773 — both antedating 
Gmelin’s S. major. Dr. Sharpe sensibly passes over medza and adopts 
major —for to call a bird medza in Latin and Greater or Double Snipe in 
English would be absurd. I hope some way can be found to square 
common sense with the Code in this case —if it cannot be, so much the 
worse for the latter. — ELL1iottT CouEs, Washington, D. C. 
The Occurrence of Tryngites subruficollis in the New England States. 
— There are several instances of the capture of the Buff-breasted S and- 
piper in Connecticut and Massachusetts which do not appear to have 
been recorded. This Sandpiper, although common in certain sections in 
the West, is not very often met with along the North Atlantic seaboard. 
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