68 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA [no. 19. 



58. Totanus flavipes. Ycllo\v-lco.s. 



On July 1, while Hoating' down Six-Mile River close to it.s entrance 

 into Lake Marsh, we were attracted by the anxious cries of a pair of 

 yellows-legs. Osgood shot hoth birds, and we found two downy young 

 in the grass on the shore of the river. Entering Lake Marsh we 

 heard a yellow-legs' whistle, and on Jul}'^ 2 I i5aw a yellow- legs near 

 where I found the least sandpiper. I collected a female on the west 

 shore of Lake Marsh July 8, and a male, the last bird of this species 

 seen, near a small pond at Lower Lebarge July 17. Both these birds 

 undoiil)tedly had eggs or young close by, for they alighted exclusively 

 in trees, scolded vociferously, tilting the body with each cry, and 

 refused to leave. Bare spaces on the breast show that both sexes 

 assist in incubation. 



Natal plumage: Upperparts and thighs, dark seal brown, man}" of 

 the feathers tipped with cream buff and whitish; longitudinal lines on 

 rmup, cream color, inclosing central, seal-brown space. Forehead, 

 buff}" white, extending in narrow lines on sides of crown to occiput, 

 and in broader lines above eye to nape, the latter crossed by trans- 

 verse dark lines extending from eye to occiput. Line beginning at 

 base of culmen enlarged to dark space on crown and occiput, extend- 

 ing down neck to back, seal brown; other dark lines extending from 

 crown above eye to occiput, and from nostrils through eye to nape. 

 Throat and center of abdouien silvery white; rest of lower parts and 

 sides of neck, bufty white; each feather of lower parts becoming 

 brownish black at base. Irides, Vandyke brown; bill, black at tip, 

 changing to greenish olive at base; tarsi and toes, yellow, paler than 

 in adult, and mottled with brown; nails, brown. The juvenile plumage 

 is appearing, in this specimen, on wings, wing coverts, chest, and sides. 



5t). Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus. Western Solitary Sandpiper. 

 At Log Cabin, British Columbia, on the evening of June l-t, we 

 noticed a sandpiper wheeling through the air, like the woodcock at its 

 breeding place, occasionally uttering a rather musical whistle. The 

 next morning I found it feeding in a small swamp. It proved to be a 

 solitary sandpiper, as I had suspected on the previous evening. 

 Osgood saw another near Lake Marsh July 6, and I saw two near 

 Little Salmon River July 21. On July 8, after rowing a few miles 

 down Lake Marsh, we stopped for lunch on the west shore, where a 

 forest fire had killed most of the trees, and fallen trunks piled in end- 

 less confusion, brush, small pools, and hordes of mosquitoes rendered 

 the place anything but a paradise. Here I startled a solitary sand- 

 piper and a yellow-legs at the same instant. They lighted on the half- 

 fallen trees and scolded me, tilting their liodies at each cry. The 

 solitary sandpiper, which doubtless had a nest there, differed chiefly 

 from eastern specimens of solitarius in having dark, wavy markings 



