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It is included in his list in the latter part of that paper 

 (p. 385). Downs speaks of it as very rare, and says 

 he purchased one in the Halifax market ("Catalogue of 

 Birds of N. S.'\ Trans. N. S. I. N. S., vii, 154). 



Green Sandpiper. Helodromas ochropus (Linn.), a O.U. 

 No. 257. — The normal habitat of this species, which is the Old 

 World representative of our Solitarj- Sandpiper, is the north- 

 ern portions of the Eastern Hemisphere from the Arctic 

 regions to the Cape of Good Hope, and from the British 

 Isles to China. It breeds in Scandinavia, Russia and Siberia, 

 south to Turkestan. D. G. Elliot, formerly president of 

 the American Ornithologists Union, in his North American 

 Shore Birds,lS9o, p. 127, saj'-s ''no record is obtainable that 

 this bird has ever been seen alive in North America," and 

 adds that it "is included in our fauna on the strength of a 

 dealer in England having received a skin among a number 

 of American birds from Halifax, Nova Scotia." This, he 

 thinks is but negative evidence, and hardly of that satis- 

 factory kind as to warrant the adoption of the species into 

 the American fauna. 



An individual of this species exists among a col- 

 lection of birds from the Northwest Territories sent to the 

 British ]Museum by the Hudson Ba}^ Company; and Pennant 

 says he also observed it among birds collected by Mr. Kuckan 

 in North America (Richardson, quoted in Macoun's Cat. of 

 Canadian Birds, 1909, p. 192). The A. 0. U. Check-list of 

 N. A. Birds, 1895, p. 94, notes it as "accidental in Nova 

 Scotia," and Chapman's Birds of Eastern North America, 

 1912, p. 258, admits it as having been "twice recorded from 

 America (Nova Scotia and Hudson Bay, Coues, Auk, xiv, 

 1897, 210);" and other writers mention this species in the 

 same way. (See also Bull. Nuttall Club, iii, 1878, p. 49; and 

 The Auk, xiv, 1897. p. 210.) If the Nova Scotian record is 

 based, as no doubt it is, on the skin referred to by Elliot, 



