404 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



somest of all the American grouse. It is twenty inches long, 

 dark-brown above, mottled with lead-color, and lead-color be- 

 neath. There are twenty feathers in the tail, which is broad- 

 ly tipped with a light slate-color. 



The band-tailed pigeon, ( Columba fasciata) the only wild 

 pigeon found on the Pacific Coast, bears a strong resemblance, 

 in form, size, and color, to its congener in the Atlantic States, 

 and has similar habits ; but is not numerous. Small flocks mi- 

 grate through the State every spring and autumn, and some 

 of them spend the summer here. 



The white-winged dove (Melophelia leucoptera) has been 

 seen in the southern part of the State, but is very rare. It 

 has white spots on its wings, whence its common and technical 

 names are derived. 



The common dove (Zenaidura carolinensis) is found on the 

 Pacific slope as well. 



The sand-hill crane (Grus canadensis) are found from the 

 meridian of Cincinnati to the Pacific, and are not rare in Cal- 

 ifornia. They spend the winters in our valleys, and in the 

 spring migrate to the Klamath Lakes, and farther north, where 

 they spend their summers and breed. Subsisting upon vege- 

 table food exclusively, they are themselves good to eat, and 

 are occasionally seen in the San Francisco market. 



322. Waders. The order of waders (Gr dilator es) is 

 represented in California by forty-one species of bir^s, name- 

 ly : one crane, two herons, two bitterns, one fly-up-the-creek, 

 one ibis, six plovers, one oyster-catcher, two turnstones, one 

 avoiset, three phalaropes, one stillet, one willet, one godwit, 

 one curlew, five snipes, five sand-pipers, one sanderling, three 

 rails, and one coot. The oyster-catcher, one turnstone, one 

 plover, and one heron, are the only species in the list not found 

 east of the Mississippi, and none of them have such value or 

 peculiarities as would give interest to a particular description 

 of them. 



