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Arenaria morinella (Linn.). 

 KuDDT Turnstone. 



All of the six Turnstones collected in Lower California by Mr. Frazar ap- 

 pear to be morinella. At least they are not larger than the birds found in 

 eastern America, nor, so far as I can see, unlike them in respect to color or 

 markings. No one of them is in fully mature plumage, even the two speci- 

 mens which were taken in March being closely similar in coloring to the four 

 young birds killed the following autumn. According to Dr. Palmer,^ however, 

 it is not difficult to distinguish immature specimens of morinella from those of 

 interpres. 



This Turnstone, now for the first time reported from the Cape Eegion, was 

 found by Mr. Frazar at Carmen Island and San Jose del Cabo. At the former 

 place it was common on March 12 ; at the latter a few were seen at various 

 dates between August 31 and October 21. The collection includes specimens 

 from both of these localities. Mr. Anthony has observed Turnstones belong- 

 ing either to this form or to interpres in April, at San Ysidro, and Mr. Bryant 

 has met with others, in February and March, 1888, on Magdalena Island and 

 in March, 1889, on Santa Margarita Island. On the latter island Mr. Bryant 

 has also found Arenaria melanoceplmla, a species which doubtless occasionally 

 visits the Cape Region. 



A. morijiella is said to occur throughout "America from the Arctic regions 

 north of Hudson Bay and westward to the Mackenzie River, along the Atlantic 

 watershed, though generally coastwise, to Patagonia and the Falkland Islands." 

 It " breeds about Hudson Bay, northward and eastward," and is at all seasons 

 "rare on the Pacific slope." A. inter})res ranges over the greater part of the 

 Old World and breeds in Alaska and from Japan " westward around to the 

 more northern British islands, Azores (?), and Greenland." * 



Haematopus frazari Beewst. 

 Frazar's Oyster-catcher. 



Haematopus palliatus (not of Temminck) Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VL 

 18S3, 351 (La Paz). 



Haematopus frazari Brewster, Auk, V. 1888, 84, 85 (orig. descr. ; type from Car- 

 men island). A. 0. IT. Comm., Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 7; Clieck List, 

 abridged ed., 1889, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 286.1. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci., 2d ser., IL 1889, 275, 276 (La Paz, etc.). Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



1 Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands N. Pacific Oc, pt. IIL 1899, 408-418. 



2 Palmer, Loc. cit., 408. 



