Notes on Pacific Coast Shore Birds 



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pipers bobbed along the edge of the brook, and on August i, a single Solitary 

 Sandpiper was observed. Doubtless it was of the western race, which is not 

 readily distinguishable from our eastern bird. 



At Seaside, Oregon, a bouldery, pebbly shore curves north from Tillamook 

 Head to the sand. Weather-beaten trunks of great trees lie strewn and jammed 

 along the shoreward side of this rock}- strip, where they have been tossed by the 

 waves; and, especially at low tide there is a strip of sand exposed outside the 

 northern end of the rocks and pebbles. August 30, some Wandering Tattlers 

 were observed along this pebbly sea-front, quiet, gentle birds, with a lisping 

 tremulous note, whose plain gray color harmonizes well with the rocks, There 

 were also some Spotted Sandpipers here. 



From September 4 to 12, the writer was again in the dry country east of the 

 mountains, this time at Ontario, Oregon, on the Snake river, which there makes 

 the boundary between the states of Oregon and Idaho. Killdeers were abundant, 

 as they had been a month earlier at Crab Creek. A little flock of Phalaropes was 

 observed on a slough, and on September 11, a Greater Yellow-legs came near 

 the State Fish Hatchery, walking at the edge of the river, and wading in shallow 

 water. 



A LONELY BUT NOT "SOLIT.\RY" SANDPIPER 

 (Probably Ereuneles mauri) 



