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were seen daily, during the latter half of November, in the lagoon already de- 

 scribed. " Mr. Anthony found them very abundant all winter in the northern 

 portion of the peninsula, and breeding where fresh water was in sufficient 

 quantity. He found a pair nesting on San Pedro Martir in May, at an altitude 

 of 8,200 feet" (Bryant). Others have been seen by Mr. Bryant at Comondu, 

 San Juan (April), and " lower Purisinia canon, where they were probably 

 breeding." 



The Coot has a very extended range on or near the Pacific coast, occurring 

 numerously nearly everywhere from Alaska to nortliern South America, and 

 breeding wherever the local conditions are suited to its tastes, without much 

 apparent regard for considerations of latitude or mean temperature. 



Cryniophilus fulicarius (Lixn.). 



Eed Phalarope. 



Pkalaropns fuJicarius Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., V. 18S3, 545 (Cape 'Region). 

 Crymojihilus fulicarius Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d sen., II. 1889, 271 (La 

 Paz Bay). 



Although the Red Phalarope has received but nominal mention on the part 

 of Mr. Belding, that observer, according to Mr. Bryant, has killed two speci- 

 mens in La Paz Bay, the only ones, apparently, which have ever been taken in 

 the Cape Region. Birds supposed to belong to this species have also been seen 

 on several occasions off the Pacific coast of the Peninsula by both Mr. Bryant 

 and Mr. Anthony, but as none of them have been secured their identification 

 is perhaps open to some doubt. 



The Red Phalarope breeds only in high northern latitudes. The southern 

 extension of its winter range in the Western hemisphere has not been defi- 

 nitely ascertained, but in the Eastern it has occurred in nortliern Africa and 

 at Calcutta, India. It visits the coast of California in moderate numbers at its 

 seasons of migration, occurring oftenest, apparently, in autumn. 



Phalaropus lobatus (Lixn.). 

 Northern Phalarope. 



Two adult Northern Phalaropes, both females, shot by Mr. Frazar on August 

 29, retain much of the breeding plumage, especially on the front and sides of 

 the neck, which are faded but distinct rufous. A male taken on Septeml)er 27 

 is in excessively worn and faded summer plumage, which is interspersed with 

 a few feathers of the winter dress. All the other birds in the series appear 

 to be adults in winter plumage, or young in their first autumn plumage, inter- 

 mixed, in some specimens, with more or less feathers of the winter plumage. 



Mr. Frazar found the Northern Phalarope not uncommon in early autumn at 



