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Calidris arenaria (Liny.). 
SANDERLING. 
Calidris arenaria Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 806 (Cape St. 
Lucas). Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534, footnote (Cape 
Region). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 272 (Cape 
Region). 
There isa nominal mention of the Sanderling in Professor Baird’s notes on 
the Xantus collection of 1859, but Mr. Belding does not include it in any of 
his lists. It was found by Mr. Frazar only at San José del Cabo, where, on 
the sea beach, three specimens were seen and two shot on October 18, and 
four seen and three taken on October 22. The species winters abundantly on 
the northwestern coast of the Peninsula according to Mr. Bryant, who also 
records a single bird obtained “on Santa Margarita Island March 4, 1889, from 
a flock of Mgialitis nivosa.” 
The Sanderling is a nearly cosmopolitan species, whose wanderings cover 
almost the entire globe, but it breeds only in Arctic and Subarctic regions. 
On the west coast of America its winter range extends to Patagonia. It is 
“common throughout the winter in flocks on the sandy sea beaches” of Los 
Angeles county, California, where it regularly lingers until the middle of May, 
and sometimes as late as the first week of June.} 
Limosa lapponica baueri (Navum.). 
Pacrric Gopwir. 
Limosa lapponica novae-zealandiae BELDING, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 545 
(Cape Region). 
Limosa lapponica bauert Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 273 (La 
Paz). 
A bare mention of the name of this Godwit in Mr. Belding’s list of the 
Birds found in the Cape Region between December 15, 1881, and May 17, 1882, 
constitutes the only record of its occurrence in North America, south of Alaska, 
according to Mr. Ridgway,? who informs me that the authenticity of the record 
is open to no doubt, for the head of the specimen is preserved in the National 
Museum. It is labeled simply “ No. 86,418, La Paz,” and, without question, is 
that of an adult ZL. J. bawert in winter plumage. Mr. Belding writes me con- 
cerning this bird : — “TI can only say I killed it at La Paz, but was not aware 
that I had taken anything but the common kind until Professor R. informed 
me to the contrary. I believe I sent only a head and wings. I had hurt my 
right hand by a large dead cactus that toppled over and fell on me. I could 
1 Grinnell, Pub. II. Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 17. 
2 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., I. 1884, 258. 
