BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Vol. III. APRIL, 1878. No. 2. 
CHANGES IN OUR NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 
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BY T. M. BREWER. 
I propose four changes in our list of North American Birds as 
now accepted : three additions and one subtraction ; the addition 
of Totanus ochropus , JEgialitis hiaticula , and Larus canus, and the 
rejection from the list of Podiceps cristatus. 
Totanus ochropus, Linn. Green Sandpiper. This species, the 
Tringa ochropus of Linnseus, Gmelin, etc., the Totanus ochropus of 
Temminck, the Helodromas of Kaup, the White-tailed Tatler of 
Nuttall, and the Green Sandpiper of Dresser, and other more recent 
authors, is entitled to a restoration to its place in the list of 
North American birds, on the indisputable authority of T. Edmund 
Harting, Esq., of London. This gentleman, in March, 1873, in- 
formed Professor Baird, by letter, that he had then recently re- 
ceived from Mr. H. Whitely, a perfectly trustworthy dealer of 
Woolwich, a small parcel of North American skins that had just 
been sent to him from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among these was an 
example of this species. Upon inquiry Mr. Harting was assured by 
Mr. Whitely that the skin actually came to him from Halifax, and 
that it had been there prepared from a bird in the flesh. Mr. Harting 
regarded it as “ the first authentic instance of the occurrence of the 
Totanus ochropus in North America.” Nevertheless this species had 
previously been included by Mr. Nuttall (Water Birds, p. 157) as 
one of the birds of North America, based upon an unverified claim 
that two specimens had been taken at Hudson’s Bay, a statement 
also accepted by Richardson in the “ Fauna Boreali-Americana ” 
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