172 Bowles, Range of Certain Birds on the Pacific Slope. l_April 



Pectoral Sandpipers, I may say that I have taken at least eight 

 specimens of this species on various dates between and including 

 September 2, 1899, and October 10, 1908. On one date I saw as 

 many as thirty or forty, and on another I noted about two dozen. 

 Specimens were secured each time." 



I have been here at Santa Barbara only during the past year 

 (1910), but I noted this species once on April 14, for the spring 

 migration, and twice in the fall, September 8 and 9. The last two 

 dates may possibly represent the same bird, as I collected it and 

 have seen no others since. Mr. Torrey also reports these birds 

 for 1909 (see Condor, Jan. -Feb., 1910). On September 17 he saw 

 one bird, two on the following day, and three on the 20th, all in 

 the same place and within the city limits of Santa Barbara. 



Killdeer (Oxyechus vociferus). — For the Pacific coast the 

 Check-List does not give this bird as wintering north of California. 

 It would perhaps be scarcely correct to go on record as stating that 

 this species is a regular winter resident on Puget Sound, but in 

 the vicinity of Tacoma it is seen so frequently at that season as to 

 attract scarcely more than passing notice. I have seen them 

 during all the winter months, although they cannot be found with 

 any certainty. Beyond a doubt many do winter, mostly in good 

 sized flocks that pass their time on one or another of the many 

 different marshes and mudflats. 



Snowy Plover (JEgialitis nivosa). — The Check-List gives 

 Oregon as the northern limit for this species. 



My brother, C. W. Bowles, took a specimen at Grays Harbor, 

 Wash., which is now in our collection. The date was September 3, 

 1899, the bird being the only one of its kind noticed. 



Mountain Quail (Oreortyx picta picta). — Given in the Check- 

 List as occurring "from southwestern Washington south," etc. 

 In the vicinity of Tacoma and throughout most of the Puget Sound 

 country this quail is an abundant resident. Owing to different 

 previous importations of both forms, occasional examples showing 

 traces of 0. p. plumifera are found, but picta is the typical form. 



Sparrow Hawk (Falco sparverius sparverius). — Range given 

 in the Check-List as "North America east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains." 



There seems no reasonable doubt that this is the resident form 



