68 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
Symphemia semipalmata inornata Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 
273 (near La Paz). 
My reference of the specimens taken by Mr. Frazar to this form is tentative 
and based largely on geographical considerations, for I confess that I am quite 
unable to find any characters which may be depended on to separate inornata 
from semipalmata when in the gray plumage. The difference in size is merely 
an average difference, and in winter the two birds appear to be colored pre- 
cisely alike. It is, indeed, not impossible that both forms are represented in 
my series from the Cape Region, although certainly more probable that all 
the birds which visit the Peninsula, as well as those which occur in California, 
are ¢nornata. 
Mr. Frazar met with this Willet in winter at La Paz and in autumn at San 
José del Cabo, where the first individual was seen on September 6, the last on 
October 18. The birds were not numerous at either place, and only four 
specimens were taken. 
Mr. Belding seems to have had a different experience, for he found Willets, 
which presumably belonged to this subspecies “very common in winter” 
south of latitude 24° 30’. Mr. Bryant speaks of seeing the Western Willet at 
Magdalena Bay in April (as late as the 28th) and he further states that “ at 
San Quintin Bay Mr. Anthony noted them as abundant in winter, and a few 
were seen throughout the summer.” 
The Willet has a very extended range, occurring from about 56° N. latitude 
to the Pampas in South America. Neither thasummer nor winter distribu- 
tion of the subspecies znornata is at all definitely known, but it has been found 
in winter in the southern United States and it certainly breeds in Utah, 
Dakota, and other inland districts of North America. Mr. Grinnell reports 
that it is a “*common migrant and oecasional through the winter on the 
tide marshes along the coast ” of Los Angeles county, California. 
Heteractitis incanus (GMEL.). 
WANDERING TATLER. 
Mr. Ridgway, in the Manual,? says that the adult of H. zncanus in the winter 
plumage is “ without any bars on lower parts,” but two of Mr. Frazar’s speci- 
mens, both taken on October 1 and otherwise in apparently full winter dress, 
have the middle of the breast, the abdomen, and the under tail coverts rather 
conspicuously and coarsely barred with slaty brown. A third, shot the same 
day, has the breast and sides similarly barred, but the middle of the abdomen 
and the under tail coverts are immaculate. As the barred feathers in all three 
birds are more or less worn and apparently remnants of the summer plumage, 
it is probable that they would have disappeared later in the season. 
1 Pub. II. Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 17. 
2 Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 167. 
