232 OCCURRENCE OF EUROPEAN BIRDS IN N. S. — PIERS. 



This species is a native of Europe, breeding as far north 

 as Iceland, and a few specimens have been killed in Danish 

 Greenland and one in Labrador, and it occurs casually on 

 the North American Atlantic coast.as far south as Washington, 

 D. C. 



Corn Crake. Crex crex (Linn.)- A. 0. U. Xo. 217. — 

 The late James ]\IcKinlay, a local ornithologist of 

 Pictou, N. S., in October, about the year 1873. while snipe 

 shooting on a wet grassy spot about a mile in the rear of 

 Pictou town, shot a specimen of this Old World species. 

 It remained long unidentified in his collection, until it was 

 examined by Frank M. Chapman, author of the Birds of 

 Eastern North America, when he visited Pictou in July, 1898. 

 It is the only record for this province. {Vide information 

 furnished me bj- Mr. McKinlay, 21st Julj^, 1898, and his 

 note in The Auk, Jan., 1899 ; also Macoun's Cat. of Can. 

 Birds, 1909, p. 154.) This bird is a native of Europe and 

 northern Asia, and occurs casually in Greenland. Newfound- 

 land, and as far south as Xew Jersey and the Bermudas. 

 Sandford, Bishop and VanDyke (Water-fowl Family, 1903, 

 294) sa3' it breeds regularly in Greenland, but I do not find 

 this noted in other works. 



Dunlin Pelidna dlpinia alpinia (Linn.). A.O.U. No. 243. 

 — This Old World representative of the American Rei- 

 breasted Sandpiper is taken occasionally in Greenland, and 

 has been also recorded as accidental on the west sid^ of 

 Hudson Bay, on Long Island, N. Y. and at Washington, 

 D. C. It breeds in Scotland and the islands to the north 

 thereof, and occasionally in England and Iceland, etc. north 

 to latitude 74°. 



Gilpin, is his "Shore Birds of Nova Scotia" {Trans. 

 N. S. Inst. Nat. Sc, v, 1882, p. 384), says that he had never 

 met with the Dunlin in Nova Scotia, and he does not mention 

 it in his list on page 385. On page 386 he says, "I have no 

 distinct recollection of . . . seeing Dunlin's Sandpiper," but 



