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almost sixty miles to the southward of Sable Island, X. S., 

 in latitude about 43° north and longitude 60° west. It died 

 a short time before the steamer reached Boston. ]Mr. William 

 Brewster of Cambridge, Mass., got the skin in October, 

 1907, and it is now in his collection, there being no doubt 

 about the identification. (Vide letter of ~S1t. Brewster to 

 writer, and his notes in The AuJc). 



The species is a native of the Eastern Hemisphere, and 

 a fair number of specimens have been taken in Greenland, 

 where it is possible it maj^ occasionally breed, although no 

 instance is known of its having done so. It is known to breed in 

 Iceland, Shetland Isles, Scandinavia and Russia. The Xova 

 Scotian record is the only one of its occurrence in Xorth 

 America south of Greenland. 



Lapwing. Vanellus vanellus (Linn.). A. 0. L'. Xo. 269. 

 — Two specimens of this bird have been taken here. The 

 first was one found dead on the shore at Ketch Harbour, 

 eleven miles south of Halifax. X. S., on 17th March, 1897, 

 and was mounted by T. J. Egan. It was very thin and had. 

 no doubt, died from starvation. This was the first record 

 of the species' occurrence in this proA'ince. (See Piers, 

 "Xotes on X. S. Zoology: Xo. 4," Trans. X. S, Inst. Sc, 

 ix, 1897, p. 258). The only previous record for eastern 

 Xorth America south of Greenland was founded on a specimen 

 taken at Merrick, Long Island, U. S. A., in December 1883 

 {vide Dutcher. The Auk, iii, 1886, p. 438). 



A second Xova Scotian specimen was shot at Upper 

 Prospect, fifteen miles southwest of Halifax, on 12th Decem- 

 ber. 1905, by a man of that place. It is now in the ProvinciaJ 

 Museum of Xova Scotia, accession no. 2954. having been 

 purchased from T. J. Egan, who mounted it, in .January, 1906. 

 (Vide Report of Provincial MuseiDn of N. S. for 1906, p. 8). 

 It is interesting to note that a Lapwing was also taken at 

 St. .John's,^ Xewfoundland, on 27th Xovember, 1905. which 



