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Calidris arenaria (Linn.). 

 Sanderlixg. 



Calidris arenaria Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Soi. Phila., 1859, 301, 306 (Cape St. 

 Lucas). RiDGWAT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534, footnote (Cape 

 Region). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2 J ser., II. 1889, 272 (Cape 

 Region). 



There is a nominal mention of the Sauderling in Professor Baird's notes on 

 the Xantus collection of 1859, but Mr. Belding does not include it in any of 

 his lists. It was found by ^Ir. Frazar only at San Jose del Cabo, where, on 

 the sea beach, three specimens were seen and two shot on October 18, and 

 four seen and three taken on October 22. The species winters abundantly on 

 the northwestern coast of the Peninsula according to Mr. Bryant, who also 

 records a single bird obtained " on Santa Margarita Island March 4, 1889, from 

 a flock of ^gialitis nivosa." 



The Sanderling is a nearly cosmopolitan species, whose wanderings cover 

 almost the entire globe, but it breeds only in Arctic and Subarctic regions. 

 On the west coast of America its winter range extends to Patagonia. It is 

 "common throughout the winter in flocks on the sandy sea beaches" of Los 

 Angeles county, California, where it regularly lingers until the middle of May, 

 and sometimes as late as the first week of June.^ 



Limosa lapponica baueri (Nacm.). 

 Pacific Godwit. 



Limosa lapponica novae-zealandiae Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 545 



(Cape Region). 

 Limosa lapponica baueri Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 273 (La 



Paz). 



A bare mention of the name of this Godwit in Mr. Bedding's list of the 

 Birds found in the Cape Region between December 15, 1881, and May 17, 1882, 

 constitutes the only record of its occurrence in North America, south of Alaska, 

 according to Mr. Ridgway,^ who informs me that the authenticity of the record 

 is open to no doubt, for the head of the specimen is preserved in the National 

 Museum. It is labeled simply " No. 86,418, La Paz," and, without question, is 

 that of an adult L. I. baueri in winter plumage. Mr. Belding writes me con- 

 cerning this bird : — "I can only say I killed it at La Paz, but was not aware 

 that I had taken anything but the common kind until Professor R. informed 

 me to the contrary. I believe I sent only a head and wings. I had hurt my 

 right hand by a large dead cactus that toppled over and fell on me. I could 



1 Grinnell, Pub. II. Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 17. "^ 



2 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer, I. 1884, 258. 



