BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 7) 
Mus., XII. 1890, 138 (Concepcion Bay). Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th 
ed., 1894, 904, 905 (descr. ; Lower Calif.). Rip@way, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 
2d ed., 1896, 588 (descr. ; Lower Calif., both coasts). Suarpr, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., XXIV. 1896, 117 (descr. ; Carmen Island), 750. 
Haematopus fraseri (err. typ.), Evxriot, N. Amer. Shore Birds, 1895, 210, 211, pl. 
72 (deser.; habits; crit.; Gulf of Calif., n. of La Paz). 
H.[aematopus] frazeri (err. typ.), Eviror, Loe. cit., 252 (key to species). 
[ Haematopus] frazari SHARPE, Hand-list, I. 1899, 147. 
Mr. Belding’s statement that H. palliatus is “ of occasional occurrence on the 
mud flats at La Paz” undoubtedly relates to this species, although ‘the latter 
was found by Mr. Frazar only on the sandy islands and shores of the Gulf to 
the northward of the place just mentioned. It was particularly common on 
Carmen Island early in March, when all the birds seen were paired and evi- 
dently about to breed. There is a specimen in the National Museum which 
was taken by Mr. Belding at the Coronados Islands off the Pacific coast of 
Lower California “about twenty miles south and west of San Diego.” 
Mr. Bryant found H. frazari ‘‘ tolerably common at Magdalena Bay and 
northward, and on Santa Margarita Island. They were mated in January. 
They were rather shy, running rapidly on the beach, and if approached, taking 
wing with loud, clear, whistling notes, and after flying some distance, alighting 
again at the water’s edge. Their food was chiefly small bivalves found in the 
gravelly beach. Two birds were obtained, of one fragments only were saved.” 
It is a curious fact that H. palliatus is represented in the collection of the 
National Museum by apparently typical specimens from the western coasts of 
Mexico, Tehuantepec, Peru, and Chili, and that H. frazari, which is most 
closely allied to the Galapagos species (H. galapagensis), is known only from 
Lower California. 
Haematopus bachmani Auvp. 
Buack OyYsTER-CATCHER. 
Haematopus bachmani Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 276 (La 
Paz). 
Of this Oyster-catcher Mr. Bryant says: “ A few were seen on Los Coronados 
Islands by Mr. Belding, also at San Quintin Bay and La Paz. Mr. Anthony 
has found them more common on the northwest coast than the preceding species 
(H. frazari}.” The mention of La Paz in the above quotation constitutes, 
apparently, the only record of the occurrence of the bird in the Cape Region, 
which probably represents the extreme limit of its range southward. To the 
northward it is found nearly everywhere along the Pacific coast from California 
to the Aleutian Islands. 
