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Actitis macularia (Linneus). Spotted Sandpiper. 
Several individuals were seen around the shores of Bear lake 
July 27 to August 2, 1905, and an adult female was secured. I 
think it probable that the species breeds there, though no young 
were found. 
On July 15, 1906, a pair of spotted sandpipers were discovered 
on the shores of Dry lake, 9000 feet altitude, at the north base of 
San Gorgonio peak. The birds on being hunted kept flying out 
over the water in wide semi-cireles, as is the habit of the species. 
One was finally shot, and we had to wait patiently for the light 
breeze to drift it ashore. This proved to be a male in full first 
winter plumage, and undoubtedly a migrant. The spotted sand- 
piper was the only kind of water bird met with at Dry lake. 
Oxyechus vociferus (Linneus). Killdeer. 
Killdeers were abundant alone the muddy shores of the east 
end of Bear lake, where they had evidently bred. A nearly full- 
grown young was taken July 28, 1905. A flock was seen near the 
west end of Baldwin lake, August 27 of the same year. 
Oreortyx pictus plumiferus (Gould). Mountain Quail. 
The mountain quail was widely distributed on both slopes of 
the San Bernardino mountains. It ranged from the Upper Sono- 
ran zone up through Transition. In the upper part of the chap- 
arral belt on the Pacific side of the mountains it was fairly com- 
mon: but it was far more so in the pinon belt on the desert side 
of the range, where in August eoveys of young with their parents 
were nearly always to be seen about watering places. On the 
north side of Gold mountain, at Cactus Flat, Doble, and at the 
north base of Sugarloaf they were abundant. In the latter local- 
ity they were feeding on service-berries wherever these were 
obtainable. Several large coveys of half-grown young were en- 
countered at Cushenbury springs on the desert early in August. 
A covey of small young and parents were seen at Bluff lake on 
July 23, and another at Fish ereek on June 17. Along the upper 
Santa Ana, to Bie Meadows, and on the south face of Sugarloaf, 
quail were fairly common, especially so the last of July and in 
