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Pierce County, is situated on Commencement Bay, which is the 

 beginning of Puget Sound farthest inland, while Seattle, in King 

 County, is some thirty miles farther down the Sound. Dungeness 

 is in Clallam, Gray's Harbor and Westport in Chehalis, with 

 "Willapa Harbor in Pacific County. East of the mountains is 

 Kiona, in Benton County, and Brook Lake and Moses Lake in 

 Douglas County, all three locations being of a sagebrush and 

 alkaline character. 



It will be of interest to state that the year 1913 was remarkable 

 for the immense flight of shorebirds, both spr'ng and fall, while in 

 1915 there were practically none at all. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Carl Lien for all of the notes from 

 Jefferson County and Westport. And also to Messrs. D. E. Brown, 

 of Seattle, Ray Gamble, of Tacoma, G. G. Cantwell, of Puyallup, 

 and F. R. Decker, of Kiona. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. Red Phala-rope. — One specimen taken by 

 .Mr. Clark P. Streator at Ilwaco, November 9, 1889. Mr. Carl Lien 

 obtained a Second specimen that killed itself by striking the light of the 

 Destruction Island lighthouse, in Jefferson County, on May 8, 1916. 

 These two, representing both spring and fall, are oddly enough the only 

 records that I have for the state. 



Lobipes lobatus. Northern Phalarope. — A common fall migrant 

 on Puget Sound. My earliest record is a flock of about fifty on July 8, 1900, 

 that were swimming in the tide-rips off Point Defiance, a part of the city 

 of Tacoma. It seemed a trifle out of place to see them feeding where the 

 water is about 200 feet deep, so that their habit of " whirling " for food 

 could not have been very productive of results. The latest specimen taken 

 was by Mr. D. E. Brown at the Tacoma tideflats on August 19, 1913, though 

 large flocks have been reported as late as early September. Mr. Lien 

 reports, for spring records, numerous specimens that killed themselves on 

 the Destruction Island light from April 27 to June 10, 1916, inclusive of 

 both dates. 



Steganopus tricolor. Wilson's Phalarope. — Not rare as a summer 

 resident on the borders of the alkaline lakes on the east side of the Cascades. 

 The nest has, I think, never been found in the state, but it has been per- 

 fectly evident to myself and other observers that they must breed. No 

 westside records. 



Recurvirostra americana. Avocet. — Formerly this handsome wader 

 was doubtless a common breeder on the alkaline lakes east of the Cas- 

 cades, but lack of adequate protection has almost exterminated them. Mr. 

 W. Leon Dawson and myself found a small colony breeding at Moses Lake 



