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Arenaria morinella (Liny.). 
Ruppy TURNSTONE. 
All of the six Turnstones collected in Lower California by Mr. Frazar ap- 
pear to be morinelia. At least they are not larger than the birds found in 
eastern America, nor, so far as I can see, unlike them in respect to color or 
markings. No one of them is in fully mature plumage, even the two speci- 
mens which were taken in March being closely similar in coloring to the four 
young birds killed the following autumn. According to Dr. Palmer,1 however, 
it is not difficult to distinguish immature specimens of morinella from those of 
anterpres. 
This Turnstone, now for the first time reported from the Cape Region, was 
found by Mr. Frazar at Carmen Island and San José del Cabo. At the former 
place it was common on March 12; at the latter a few were seen at various 
dates between August 31 and October 21. The collection includes specimens 
from both of these localities. Mr. Anthony has observed Turnstones belong- 
ing either to this form or to imterpres in April, at San Ysidro, and Mr. Bryant 
has met with others, in February and March, 1888, on Magdalena Island and 
in March, 1889, on Santa Margarita Island. On the latter island Mr. Bryant 
has also found Arenaria melanocephala, a species which doubtless occasionally 
visits the Cape Region. 
A. morinella is said to occur throughout “ America from the Arctic regions 
north of Hudson Bay and westward to the Mackenzie River, along the Atlantic 
watershed, though generally coastwise, to Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.” 
It ‘* breeds about Hudson Bay, northward and eastward,” and is at all seasons 
“rare on the Pacific slope.” A. interpres ranges over the greater part of the 
Old World and breeds in Alaska and from Japan “westward around to the 
more northern British islands, Azores (?), and Greenland.” ? 
Haematopus frazari Brewsr. 
FRAZAR’S OYSTER-CATCHER. 
Haematopus palliatus (not of Temminck) Bexpine, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., VI. 
1883, 851 (La Paz). 
Hlaematopus frazari Brewster, Auk, V. 1888, 84, 85 (orig. descr.; type from Car- 
men Island), A.O.U. Comm., Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 7; Check List, 
abridged ed., 1889, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 286.1. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. 
Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 275, 276 (La Paz, etc.). TowNnsEnn, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
1 Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands N. Pacific Oc., pt. III. 1899, 408-418. 
2 Palmer, Loc, cit., 408. 
