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species is probably the most abundant of all our Limicola?, coming a few- 

 days after the Least Sandpipers and leaving, as a rule, a few days earlier. 

 They are spring and fall migrants, the only exception being a specimen that 

 I took on the Nisqually Flats on November 25, 1916. This was a female 

 and very fat, in spite of the cold season. The primaries in one wing were 

 not quite grown to full length, which may account for the delayed migration, 

 but it was quite able to hold its own with a few Killdeer that were flying 

 along with it. 



Calidris leucophsea. Sanderling. — The Sanderling is one of several 

 species concerning which we have very little accurate data. They cannot 

 be frequent visitors to upper Puget Sound, as I have no records. Cantwell 

 reports them as abundant winter residents at Dungeness, his earliest arrivals 

 being on August 18, 1916. He saw 200 on February 25, 1915, and also 

 noted them between December 30, 1915, and January 16, 1916. 



Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — ■ We have but one record for this 

 fine wader, the specimen being shot on the Tacoma Flats on September 3, 

 1905, by Mr. T. C. Harmer, of Tacoma. This was secured from a flock of 

 about fifteen large waders of a similar size, but in California I have found 

 these godwits so often in the same vicinity with Hudsonian Curlew that 

 possibly the flock in question may have been composed of both of these 

 species. 



Totanus melanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. — While this bird 

 is never actually common, it is probably more often seen than any of the 

 other large waders, one or two generally greeting us upon every visit to the 

 flats during spring and fall. It is among the first to reach us from the 

 north in the fall migration, Brown taking one on the Tacoma Flats on 

 July 4, 1914. They remain with us late into the season and are, to some- 

 extent, winter residents, as Cantwell reports them at Dungeness between 

 December 30 and January 16, 1916. Latest spring record by Brown, is 

 May 16, 1914, at Willapa Harbor. 



Totanus flavipes. Yellow^legs. — Seen during the fall of 1913, when 

 they were by no means rare, twice in 1915, and one on May 23, 1918. 

 When not alone they were most often found in company with Long-billed 

 Dowitchers. On August 16, 1913, a flock of forty-eight were seen on the 

 Tacoma Flats by Mr. Brown, who collected specimens. The writer was so 

 fortunate as to take the first recorded, an adult male on July 25, 1913,. 

 and the earliest was seen July 7, 1915, at Tacoma. Brown saw one on 

 August 7, 1915, at Seattle. 



Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus. Western Solitary Sand- 

 piper. — A very rare fall migrant, and still more so in the spring. We have 

 but four records in all, the first being one bird seen by myself August 22, 

 1912, on the Nisqually Flats. While this bird was not actually collected, 

 it was very tame and I watched it from a distance of only a few feet for 

 some time. I am so well acquainted with these birds in other parts of the 

 country that there was no possibility of a mistake. Mr. Brown collected 

 another at Seattle on August 6, 1915, while Mr. F. R. Decker took one at. 



