252 General Notes. [April 



in company with other warblers. Only one nesting record for the Province 

 is known to me, namely St. John, 1884. — Stanley G. Jew^ett, Portland, 

 Oregon. 



Some British Columbia Records. — Sterna caspia. Caspian Tern 

 — An adult Caspian Tern was seen about the head of Okanagan lake for 

 some time on July 8, 1910, keeping just out of gun-shot of me. It was 

 in full summer plumage and constitutes the first definite record of the 

 species for British Columbia, though I was practically certain of my 

 identification of one some three years ago at the same locality. 



Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. — I saw this Sand- 

 piper again last August for the first time since 1899. 



The first were seen on August 8 when I took three which were feeding 

 with some Lesser Yellowlegs; two days later at the same place (Okanagan 

 Commonage) I saw five more and collected four of them. All were young 

 birds in the first plumage with a few feathers of the gray winter dress 

 coming in. 



Ereunetes pusillus. Semipalmated Sandpiper.— I wish once again 

 to put on record that this is a common, or even abundant, migrant in 

 British Columbia from the coast to the Rockies. Here at Okanagan about 

 the center of the Province it outnumbers the Western Sandpiper one 

 hundred to one. During the last fall migration I scrutinized every Ereu- 

 netes seen, several hundred in all, through a powerful glass, and shot a 

 number of birds I was doubtful of, all were typical pusillus and I have 

 only taken three or four Western Sandpipers east of the Cascades in all 

 my collecting. 



Litnosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — One seen on August 7, 1910, 

 constitutes the first record I have for Okanagan or for anywhere in the 

 Province east of the coast. 



Dendragapus richardsoni. Richardson's Grouse. — During the 

 past few years I have shot a number of these grouse in the Selkirk and 

 Rocky Mountains, and have been surprised at the darkness of their color- 

 ation, fully as dark as fuliginosa. 



The shape and coloration of the tail feathers was in every instance the 

 same as in typical richardsoni, and an adult male killed in the Rockies had 

 the bare skin on the sides of the neck dull reddish and without any trace 

 of gelatinous thickening, precisely as in all richardsoni. Adult males of 

 the Sooty Grouse have the skin on sides of the neck tremendously thick- 

 ened, of a deep yellow color, and with a velvety texture and wrinkled 

 surface. 



As in other Grouse this is inflated when the bird is " hooting." The 

 hooting of the Sooty Grouse can be heard for miles, while that of Richard- 

 son's Grouse is usually inaudible at a distance of one hundred yards, 

 though the single hoot, which all Indians say is made by the female bird, 

 has the same volume of sound in both species. 



Xenopicus albolarvatus. White-headed Woodpecker. — For twenty 



