° 1911 J Bowles, Range of Certain Birds on the Pacific Slope. 171 



County, Wash. There was practically no doubt of a nesting 

 ground in the vicinity, but unfortunately we were unable to 

 locate it. 



Little Brown Crane (Grus canadensis). — Given in the Check- 

 List as " casual west to California." 



There is little doubt in my mind that a majority of the cranes 

 seen in Washington west of the Cascades are of this species. I col- 

 lected an adult male near Tacoma on October 10, 1909. I have no 

 positive record for Grus mexicana excepting east of the mountains. 



Wilson's Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor). — I believe this 

 Phalarope has been unusually numerous in the vicinity of Santa 

 Barbara during the past summer of 1910. 



July 22 is my first record, when two were together down on the 

 flats, one evidently adult, the other probably young of the year. 



On August 4 I saw three others, all in fall plumage, and on 

 September 8 two more, of which I collected one. Between the 

 dates given I saw frequently what were probably the same birds, 

 but those given on the above date were most probably different 

 individuals. Mr. Torrey saw these birds as well, and also has a 

 record of a male and female seen April 30, 1909. 



Pectoral Sandpiper (Pisobia maculata). — Given in the 

 Check-List as, " In migration very rare on Pacific coast south of 

 British Columbia, except in Lower California." 



In the Puget Sound district of Washington this sandpiper is an 

 irregular, but hardly a rare, spring and fall migrant. Some seasons 

 it is almost or quite absent, while in others it is fairly common. 



Hunting the Wilson's Snipe is one of my favorite sports, which 

 may very possibly account for my seeing more of these sandpipers 

 than the average observer. They frequent the same localities 

 as the snipe, and I have several times seen as many as six or eight 

 at one time scattered over an acre or two of wet meadow land. 

 Incidentally they are so tame as to let a good dog "point" them 

 repeatedly, much to the detriment of the sportsman's temper. 

 I killed only a couple of specimens for my collection, but a hundred 

 individuals would be an exceedingly low estimate of the number 

 I saw during my fourteen years' residence in the State. 



The experience of Mr. J. M. Edson at Bellingham, Wash., has 

 been very similar to my own. He writes me: "Concerning the 



