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a conspicuously white central area on the abdomen, but the bills are always slightly 
longer than the only eastern specimen I have of M. griseus griseus, so all are classed as 
scolopaceus. FHarliest fall records, adults, July 26; young, August 22. Bill dark olive on 
basal half; feet greenish, to grayish olive. 
7. Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. Since my first record of two 
birds taken at Sumas August 19, 1899, there have been four more records, all at Oka- 
| nagan Landing; so it may prove to be a regular migrant. Earliest fall record August 8. 
No adults seen. Bill olive, tip black; feet varying from Roman ochre to yellow ochre, 
tinged with green. 
8. Tringa canutus. Knot. This is evidently a coastwise migrant. One record 
some 100 miles inland—Sumas, August 15, 1890. Bill olive, tip black; feet yellowish. 
9. Arquatella maritima couesi. Aleutian Sandpiper. The first records of this 
species were of specimens taken near Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, by Mr. C. deB. 
Green in April, 1914. Since then it has been taken many times far to the south of that 
place (Washington and Oregon); it is probably a regular winter resident along the 
rocky shores of the coast, and only needs looking for in such localities. Latest spring 
record for Massett, May 5. Feet olive greenish. 
10. Pisobia aurita. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper. Two specimens taken at Massett, 
Queen Charlotte Islands, December 27, 1897, by Rev. J. H. Keen (Provincial Museum 
Catalogue). One of these which I examined was, curiously, an adult. This would in- 
dicate a regular migration down the American coast, as adults rarely lose their bear- 
ings. One seen by myself at the mouth of Campbell River, October 4, 1903, was a bird 
of the year. ; 
11. Pisobia maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. Bowles in The Auk (1918, p. 329), 
gives this species as a tolerably regular and sometimes common fall migrant to the 
tide-flats and fresh-water marshes in the vicinity of Tacoma. I have derived great 
comfort from this record as it has always been a source of wonderment to me where 
the great numbers of this species that I have seen migrating across the 49th Parallel 
could disappear to. Everywhere just north of that boundary I have found it to be a 
common and sometimes abundant visitor every fall for the last thirty odd years, 
though rarer in the spring, and so recorded it in my list of the birds of Chilliwack (Awk, 
January, 1917). In spite of the above records the authors of “The Game Birds of Cali- 
fornia” say definitely that “the main migration route of the species lies east of the 
Rocky Mountains and it seems that only a few stragglers, probably birds of the year, 
occur along the Pacific Coast.” See also the A. O. U. Check-list for 1910: “Rare on Pa- 
cific coast south of British Columbia, except in Lower California” (italics are mine). 
Earliest fall records, adults, July 28; young, August 7; last spring record, May 22. A 
curious record, which I hesitated to place as a fall one, is of three adults taken at Su- 
mas, June 14, 1899. Bill dark olive, yellowish at base of lower mandible; feet bright 
ochre yellow. ; 
12. Pisobia bairdi. Baird Sandpiper. This is another species, a common, even 
abundant, fall migrant throughout southern B. C., that used to do the disappearing act 
on the 49th Parallel until a few years ago, when it commenced to be recorded regularly 
to the southward. Though I have seen thousands in the fall, I have only two spring 
records, and only one record of an adult in the fall. Earliest fall records, adults July 7, 
young July 26. Bill black; feet dark gray to black. 
13. Pisobia minutilla. Least Sandpiper. Abundant in the fall, and regular in 
the spring. Earliest fall records, adults, July 7; young, July 24. Bill dark olive to black; 
feet dull, to bright, ochre yellow, sometimes tinged with green. 
14. Pelidna alpina sakhalina. Red-backed Sandpiper. Abundant in the fall and 
much scarcer in the spring, at Sumas; resident throughout the winter on the coast, no 
interior records. A very late arrival in the fall; I cannot find any earlier record than 
October 14. Bill black, feet dark gray to black. I must withdraw my record of Pelidna 
alpina alpina (Auk, vol. xxi, p. 290). Dr. Bishop has identified the specimen in question 
as a small individual of P. a. sakhalina. It was identified as alpina on the measure- 
ments, which are well within those given for the Old World form in Ridgway’s Manual. 
15. Ereunetes pusillus. Semipalmated Sandpiper. While this species is toler- 
ably common west of the Cascades on the coast, it becomes common, and at times 
abundant, east of the Cascade range during the fall migrations. It is another of the 
