238 OCCUERENCE OF EUROPEAN BIRDS IN N. S. — PIERS. 



must have conit southward at the same time as the Xova 

 Scotian specimen. (Vide The Auk, xxiii, 22J). 



The Lapwing inhabits the northern parts of the Eastern 

 Hemisphere, breeding from Central Eruope and Asia, north 

 to the Arctic c'rcle in Europe and latitude 55° north in 

 Siberia: and has tAvice been found in Greenland (in 1820 and 

 1847), and has also been reported doubtfully from Norton 

 Sound. Alaska, where Dall mentions the capture of what 

 he supposed to be this species, although he did not himself 

 see the specimen. 



European Bird Incorrectly Reported as Occurring in Nova 



Scoiia. 



Greenland AVheatear. Saxicola cenanthe leucorhoa 

 (Gmel.). A. 0. U. Xo. 765a. — In conclusion some particulars 

 will be given regarding the Greenland Wheatear, a bird long 

 reported to have been taken in Xova Scotia, and is so mentioned 

 in most books. About the year 1854, or shortl3^ before, J- 

 Cassin obtained a Wheatear skin which had been collected 

 and sent to him by a gentleman from Xova Scotia, and he, 

 not unnaturally, concluded that it had been taken in that 

 province, and so mentioned it as a Xova Scotian occurrence 

 in his Illustrations of the Birds of California, etc., 1st series, 

 no. vii, 1854, p. 208. Xova Scotia until very recently was thus 

 given as a locality for its casual occurrence, for example in 

 the A. 0. U. Check List of 1895, Chapman's Birds of Eastern 

 North America, 1895, etc. According, however, to Brewer 

 in his History of North American Birds, i, 1874, p. 60, Cassin's 

 specimen came in reality from Coal Harbour, Labrador, 

 and not from Xova Scotia at all, although the gentleman 

 who collected it was from that province. (See also Stejnege-i, 

 "Wheatears of Xorth America," Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1901, pp. 473 and 479). The most recent works have 

 now dropped Xova Scotia from the localities where it has 



