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Mus., XIII. 1890, 138 (Concepcion Bay). Coces, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th 

 ed., 18".»4, 001, 905 (descr. ; Lower Calif). Riugw.w, Man. N. Anier. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1896, 588 (descr. ; Lower Calif., both coasts). Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. iMus., XXIV. 1896, 117 (descr.; Carmen Island), 730. 



Hoematopiu fmseri (err. typ.), Elliot, N. Amer. Shore Birds, 1895, 210, 211, pi. 

 72 (descr. ; habits ; crit. ; Gulf of Calif., n. of La Paz). 



H.[arm(itopus] frazeri (err. typ.), Elliot, Lnc. cit., 252 (key to species). 



[Haematopus] frazari Sharpe, Hand-list, I. 1899, 147. 



Mr. Beldinji's statement that if. imlliatus is " of occasional occurrence on the 

 mud flats at La Paz " undoubtedly relates to this species, although the latter 

 was found by Mr. Frazar only on the sandy islands and shores of the Gulf to 

 the northward of the place just mentioned. It was particularly common on 

 Carmen Island early in March, when all the birds seen were paired and evi- 

 dently about to breed. There is a specimen in the National Museum which 

 was taken by Mr. Belding at the Coronados Islands off the Pacific coast of 

 Ijower California " about twenty miles south and west of San Diego." 



:Mr. Bryant found H. frazari " tolerably common at Magdalena Bay and 

 northward, and on Santa Margarita Island. They were mated in January. 

 They were rather shy, running rapidly on the beach, and if approached, taking 

 wing with loud, clear, whistling notes, and after flying some distance, alighting 

 again at the water's edge. Their food was chiefly small bivalves found in the 

 gravelly beach. Two birds were obtained, of one fragments only were saved." 



It is a curious fact that H. jinlludus is represented in the collection of the 

 National Museum by apparently typical specimens from the western coasts of 

 Mexico, Tehuautepec, Peru, and Chili, and that H. frazari, which is most 

 closely allied to the Galapagos species (H. galapagensis) , is known only from 

 Lower California. 



Haematopus bachmani Aud. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



Haemafopus bachmani Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., 11. 1889, 276 (La 

 Paz). 



Of this Oyster-catcher Mr. Bryant says: " A few were seen on Los Coronados 

 Islands by Mr. Belding, also at San Quintin Bay and La Paz. Mr. Anthony 

 has found them more common on the northwest coast than the preceding species 

 [H. frazari]." The mention of La Paz in the above quotation constitutes, 

 apparently, the only record of the occurrence of the bird in the Cape Region, 

 which probably represents the extreme limit of its range southward. To the 

 northward it is found nearly everywhere along the Pacific coast from California 

 to the Aleutian Islands. 



