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River in Nevada, May 4; several along Beaverdam Creek, northwest- 

 ern Arizona, May 10; many in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada (where the 

 species was breeding), May 24 ; and one in Oasis Valley, Nevada, June 1. 

 Mr. Nelson saw a single individual on Willow Creek Canon, in the 

 Panauiint Mountains, May 22', and observed the species at the head of 

 Owens River and on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, but found 

 it nowhere common. Mr. Belding saw ifc at Mirror Lake, in the Yosemite 

 Valley. The writer saw it along Kern Eiver, near Kernville, July 11- 

 12, and at Soda Springs or Kern River Lakes September 5. Mr. Bailey 

 found it common around the fresh-water pools at Monterey early in 

 October. 



Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. 



Mr. Nelson saw four sickle-billed curlews on the shore of Owens Lake 

 December 27, and subsequently Mr. Bailey saw a flock of about a dozen. 

 Mr. Stephens observed one near Ash Creek, on the same lake, the last 

 of May. 



Numenius hudsonicus. Hudsonian Curlew. 



In California Mr. Nelson found the hudsonian curlew at Buena Vista 

 Lake in the San Joaquin Valley in October, and found it common at 

 Morro Bay in November. 



Charadrius squatarola. Black-bellied Plover. 



The only record of the black-bellied plover was a male secured by Mr. 

 Bailey at Monterey, Calif., October 3. 



iEgialitis vocifera. Killdeer Plover. 



The killdeer plover is the commonest wad er in the desert regions 

 and occurs wherever there is water enough to form marshy places in 

 the vicinity of streams or springs. Dr. Merriam found it particularly 

 abundant at Hot Springs, in Panamint Valley, Calif., April 20-25 ; at 

 the junction of Beaverdam Creek with the Virgin River, Arizona, May 

 9; along the Santa Clara River near its junction with the same river, 

 in southwestern Utah, May 11-15 ; at Willow Spring, in the western 

 part of the Mohave Desert, June 26; at Owens Lake, June 19, and in 

 Kern Valley, California, June 22. In Nevada he found it also, though 

 in less abundance, at Vegas Spring, May 1; at the Bend of the Colo- 

 rado River, May 4; at Bunkerville, in the Virgin Valley, May 8; in 

 Pahranagat Valley and at Pahranagat Lake, May 22-26; 



The writer first observed it at Furnace Creek ranch, Death Valley, 

 in the latter part of January, where it was noisy on moonlight nights; 

 Dr. Merriam observed if at the same place about the middle of April; 

 and Mr. Bailey and the writer found it not uncommon on their last 

 trip to the Valley, June 19-22. One was seen by the latter observer 

 at Resting Springs, California, February 16, and a number at Ash 

 Meadows, Nevada, during the first three weeks of March. Mr. Nelson 

 saw a few solitary individuals about the ranch in Pahrump Valley, 



