SHORE BIRDS 



286.1. FRAZAR'S OYSTER-CATCHER. Hcematopus bachmani. 



Range. Lower California. 



This species is darker on the back than the preceding, 

 and the breast is mottled with dusky. Bill very long, 

 heavy, compressed, and thin and chisel-like at the tip. 



Brownish buff. 



Bill and eyes red; legs flesh color; under parts white, and 

 a white wing bar. These are large, awkward looking birds. 

 It is not an uncommon wader in its somewhat restricted 

 range. Its nesting habits are the same as those of the 

 preceding one, but the markings are generally more sharply 

 defined. The one figured is from a set in the collection of Mr. C. W. Crandall. 



287-286.1 



287- BLACK OYSTER-CATCHER. Haematopus bachmani. 



Range. Pacific coast of North 



America from Lower California , ^MM 



north to Alaska. 



This species is the same size as -W^F<t ^ 



the Oyster-catcher, but the plumage 

 is entirely black both above and be- 

 low. They are found upon the 

 rocky coasts and islands, more fre- 

 quently than upon sandy beaches. 

 Their eggs are laid upon bare rocks 

 or pebbles with no attempt at lin- 

 ing for the nest. The eggs are an 

 olive buff in color, spotted and 

 blotched with brownish black. 

 Size 2.20 x 1.55. Breeding through- 

 out the Aleutian Islands, British 

 Columbia and south to Lower California. 



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Olive buff. 

 Three or four eggs are laid. 



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