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some white feathers in the wing (Coll. van Wickevoort 

 Crommelin, 203—5). 



147. Gallinago gallinago (L.). [Watersnip]. 



Twelve specimens. In the collection van Wickevoort 

 Crommelin are three pale-coloured variations (205 — 3, 5 and 

 G), and in 1858 a whitish specimen has been purchased 

 from the Cabinet van Lidth de Jeude (Schlegel, Cat. 

 Scolopaces, Gallinago scolopacina, n°. 20). 



148. Gallinago major (Gmelin). [Poelsnip]. 



The Museum received 5 specimens, four of them killed 

 in September and one, a male, shot 23 December 1905 near 

 Putten, Gelderland. It is not always easy to distinguish 

 G. gallinago from G, major, but looking at the first primary, 

 there can be no doubt, the outer web of this primary being 

 in gallinago whitish aud in major dark brownish. 



149. Gallinago gallinula (L.). [Bokje]. 



9 specimens killed in September, October and November. 



Glareolidae. 



150. Glareola pratincola (L.). [Zwaluwplevier]. 



Has thrice occurred in the province of Noord-Brabant. 

 We possess no indigenous specimen. 



Oedicnemidae. 



151. Oedicnemus oedicnemns (L.). [Griel]. 



The Museum received only one specimen, a female, shot 

 14 May 1906 on the dunes of Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, 

 where the bird is still breeding in a few numbers. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



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