36 Brooxs, Birds of the Chilliwack District, B. C. ees 
55. Grus mexicana. SanpHILL Crane.— The large Crane bred regu- 
larly in a cranberry bog at Sumas up to 1902. It still breeds near the city 
of New Westminster in the large cranberry bogs. 
56. Rallus virginianus. Virernta Rar.— Permanent resident. 
Scarce. 
57. Porzana carolina. Sora.— Summer resident only. More com- 
mon than the last. 
58. Fulica americana. Coot.— Spring and fall migrant. 
59. Lobipes lobatus. NortTHERN PHALAROPE.— Common fall mi- 
grant, never seen in the spring. 
60. *Steganopus tricolor. Witson’s PHALAROPE.— On September 
9, 1888, a large Phalarope which I took to be this species flew low over my 
head and settled in a swampy stream where it swam about in regular 
phalarope fashion, ; 
61. Gallinago delicata. Witson’s Snipzr.— Common resident — 
a few breed. 7 
62. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus. LonG-siLLED DowiTcHER.— 
Common in fall. Very rare in spring. 
63. Micropalama himantopus. Stitt Sanppiper.— Two birds of 
the year taken at Sumas Lake August 19, 1899. 
64. Tringa canutus. Knor.— Only once seen when I shot a young 
bird at Sumas Lake in August, 1890. 
65. Pisobia maculata. PrcroraL SANDPIPER.— Common in fall 
and rare in spring. 
66. Pisobia bairdi. Barrp’s SAnpPIPER.— Common, often in very 
large flocks, in fall. Rare in spring. I have never taken an adult in the 
fall to my knowledge. 
67. Pisobia minutilla. Least SanpprppER.— Common in fall and 
one of the few sandpipers that visit the valley regularly in spring. 
68. Pelidna alpina sakhalina. Rerp-BacKED SANDPIPER.— The 
last sandpiper to arrive in the fall and remains all winter on Sumas Lake, 
though driven to the sea coast in very severe weather. 
69. Ereunetes pusillus. SmmipaALMATED SanppipeR.— Although I 
have sent numbers of this Sandpiper back to the large eastern collections, 
and yearly recorded it as a regular migrant, it is still quoted (A. O. U. 
Check-List, 1910) as ‘‘ casual” in British Columbia. It is a tolerably 
common and regular fall migrant to the valley, arriving late in July, some 
two weeks before the next species. East of the Cascades it is the common 
Ereunetes outnumbering mawri one hundred to one. 
70. Ereunetes mauri. WersTERN SANDPIPER.— Common in fall and 
rare in spring. In life this is a very different bird from pusillus; in that 
species the bill is straight or turns slightly upward like a Knot’s or a Sander- 
ling’s. In mauri the bill turns slightly but pronouncedly downwards, like 
a miniature of the Red-backed Sandpiper. In fact in life the Western 
Sandpiper bears a stronger resemblance to the Least Sandpiper than to its 
close ally the Semipalmated. 
