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second appearance. Two Long-billed Dowitchers were taken on St. Paul Island, 
August 27, 1920, at Northeast Point. The first record appeared in the Condor 
pcxar- 1920, p. 173). - 
The second specimen of a Least Sandpiper, a male, was taken at Northeast 
Point, St. Paul Island, August 27, 1920. The first, taken by Osgood, was re- 
corded in the Auk (xxxim, 1916, p. 401). 
Two more specimens of the Baird Sandpiper were taken on St. Paul Island 
in 1920, at Northeast Point, August 12. Three were taken on the same island in 
1914 and recorded in the Auk (xxxiu, 1916, p. 401). 
It might be added here that the Arctic Tern, Sabine Gull, Pectorai Sandpi- 
per, and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper are more than accidental visitors. The latter 
two species in particular have been collected in considerable numbers the past 
few years. 
San Francisco, Califorma, March 1, 1921. 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
Notes on the Hypothetical List of California Birds.—In “A Distributional List of 
the Birds of California” (Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 11, 1915) three species have been 
placed in the hypothetical list by Dr. Joseph Grinnell on the ground of insufficient evi- 
dence, though the specimens are still in the British Museum and were recorded in the 
“Catalogue of Birds’. I have recently (November, 1920) had an opportunity to examine 
these birds, and the results are possibly worth recording. 
Philohela minor. Woodcock. One specimen from California recorded by Dr. R. B. 
Sharpe, “‘Catalogue of Birds,” xxiv, p. 681; this bears a Seebohm label, “E. Mus. Henry 
Seebohm’’, and on it is written “Scolopax minor, ¢@, California, (H. Whitely).” The 
number in the British Museum Register is written on the back, 96.1.1.97. Writing in 
1888, Seebohm in his “The Geographical Distribution of the Charadriidae,” says (p. 504) 
of the Woodcock: “Its range extends northwards to lat. 50°, and southwards into Texas, 
but its longitudinal range extends from the Atlantic only halfway across the continent.” 
Evidently Seebohm had no California record of the Woodcock when this was written, or 
if he had, he disregarded it. Henry Whitely was curator of the museum of the Royal 
Artillery Institution at Woolwich in 1865, where were deposited the natural history col- 
lections made by John Keast Lord, naturalist to the British North American Boundary 
Commission. These collections included a few birds collected by Lord in California. 
Henry Whitely was for some years a natural history agent, and received a great deal of 
material from abroad, but the locality “California” will have to be disregarded as far as 
his authority is concerned. 
Limosa haemastica. . Hudsonian Godwit. Three specimens from California re- 
corded by Dr. R. B. Sharpe, “Catalogue of Birds’, xxiv, pp. 391 and 756; all from the 
Seebohm collection. I found only two of these, both with only the Seebohm label. One is 
marked “9”, and is probably an adult in winter, the number in the British Museum 
Register is, 92.8.3.326; the other is marked “9?” and is an adult, and the label bears the 
British Museum registered number, 96.7.1.820; both have “California” written on the 
labels. The third, which I was unable to find, is, according to the “Catalogue of Birds’’ 
(p. 391), an adult male with the same data and origin. Seebohm in “The Geographical 
Distribution of the Charadriidae” says (p. 393) that the Hudsonian Godwit has occurred 
twice in Alaska but nowhere else on the Pacific coast of North America, so these records 
may also be disregarded. That Seebohm should have had a Woodcock and three Hud- 
sonian Godwits from California in his collection, without comment, and that Sharpe 
should have published the records, is sufficient reason for a detailed examination of the 
evidence. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata. Arizona Cardinal. One specimen from California 
recorded by Dr. R. B. Sharpe, “Catalogue of Birds’, xu, p. 159; this has a blank label 
with “California” and no registered number; the origin was unknown as none is given 
