234 OCCUREENCE OF EUROPEAN BIRDS EN N. S. — PIERS. 



near Grand Pre, King's county, in the latter part of September, 

 1898 or 1899—1 think 28th September, 1898. I fired into a 

 small flock of sandpipers and brought down a White-rumped 

 Sandpiper, two Red-backed Sandpipers, and one which differed 

 from the latter and which to the best of my ability to identify 

 with the aid of Chamberlain's revision of Nuttall's Ornith- 

 ology, I decided was the Dunlin, which is said to occur not 

 infrequently on this side of the Atlantic. However, the skin 

 is not in existence now, and even my notes of the time have 

 been lost or destroyed- I really think I was justified in calling 

 the bird the Dunlin." 



Dr. Tufts is a careful observer, but as very unfortunately 

 his speciman is not available for reference, the record must 

 stand as one which was probably correct, but which cannot 

 noAv be absolutely verified. 



Curlew Sandpiper. Erolia ferruginea (Briinn.). A.O.U. 

 No. 244. — This is an Old World species which occurs casually in 

 North and South America, being recorded from Alaska, 

 Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, 

 New Jersey, and the West Indies and Paxagonia. It is 

 said to breed on the Arctic coast of Siberia, and a set of 

 eggs, supposed to . be of this species, has been taken in 

 Greenland, where the bird is said to occur. Little, however, 

 is definitely known on these points. Gilpin ("Shore Birds of 

 Nova Scotia," Trans. N. S. Inst. Nat. Sc, v, 383), under 

 the old name Tringa suharquata, says he had it noted as taken 

 at'Halifax, October, 1864, "but," he adds, "I am not certain."* 



*Gilpin'sstatemsat is slightiy ambiguous on one point. The paragraph from which the above 

 quotation is made, says, "The Cape Curlew I have noted Halifax, October. Tringa subarquata, 

 Schinss sand piper, I note Halifax, October 186-t, but I am not certain." Now Schinz's Sand- 

 piper is one of the names of the White-rumped Sandpiper {Pisobia fuscicoltis) and is not, I 

 believe, applied to E. ferruginea. In his list on page 385, he gives "Tringa subarquala — Curlew 

 Sandpiper," but not the White-rumped (Sch nz's) Sandpiper (P. fuscicollis); and on the next 

 page he says, "I have not mentioned in this list Schinze's Sandpiper, although my notes give him 

 at Halifax, August, 1864. I have no distinct reooZlection of the bird, or of seeing Dunlin's an 

 enlarged copy of it, in Nova Scotia." 



