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state. But careful study of the extensive material in the Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology now makes it practically certain that all records of “‘occidentalis’’ really 
belong under canadensis proper, which see. (See also Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. 
Zool., xu, 1913, pp. 1-24, figs. and pls.) 
15 (200) Florida caerulea (Linnaeus) 
LittLE Buur HErRon 
Status—One record: Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, ‘‘rare 
winter visitant’’ (Fry, U. 8. Dept. Interior, General Information Regarding Se- 
quoia and General Grant National Parks, Season of 1912, p. 8). Very doubtful 
(see J. Grinnell, Condor, xv, 1913, p. 188). The species is normally confined to 
the South Atlantic and Gulf states, straggling northwest to Nebraska. 
16 (204) Grus americana (Linnaeus) 
WHOOPING CRANE 
Status—Said to have formerly bred ‘‘from Upper California northward’’ 
(Audubon, Bds. Amer., v, 1842, p. 195). More recently reported as seen in spring 
and fall in Butte and Sutter counties (Belding, Zoe, n, 1891, p. 99). Neither 
case is conclusive. The species is now rare even where once most plentiful—in 
central British America south to the Great Plains. 
17 (228) Philohela minor (Gmelin) 
Woopcock 
Status—One specimen listed from ‘‘California’’ by Sharpe (Cat. Bds. Brit- 
ish Mus., xxiv, 1896, p. 681) ; there is no corroboration. The Woodcock, a com- 
mon bird of parts of the eastern United States, has not been definitely recorded 
west of Colorado. 
18 (240) Pisobia fuscicollis (Vieillot) 
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 
Synonym—Tringa fuscicollis. 
Status—Known only from the record by W. HE. Bryant (Auk, Iv, 1887, p. 
78) of a female specimen taken near Oakland, October 8, 1883. This specimen 
was in the first California Academy of Sciences collection, but was doubtless 
destroyed in the fire of April, 1906. This record has already been queried 
(Goss, Bds. Kansas, 1891, p. 174). I distinctly remember to have looked at the 
specimen, labeled in Bryant’s handwriting. Mr. L. M. Loomis with whom I was 
at the time (fall of 1900) remarked that the identification was wrong, and that 
the bird was probably Tringa (=—Pisobia) maculata (see p. 50). The White- 
rumped Sandpiper migrates chiefly, if not altogether, east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. 
19 (251/) Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus) 
Hupsonian Gopwit 
Synonym—Limosa hudsonica. 
Status—Three specimens are listed as from ‘‘California’’, without statement 
