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“vanishing species” as far as the western states are concerned, as while I have seen 
hundreds within a few miles of the International Boundary, it apparently ceases to exist 
once it leaves British Columbia. If the keen-eyed observers of the States to the south- 
ward will look over the flocks of the next species I think this mystery will be solved. 
Even in life it is very distinct; the short black bill has none of the downward deflec- 
tion seen in Hreunetes mauri, and the back is always grayer. The post-nuptial molt 
commences much earlier than in other sandpipers. The adults, which form the van- 
guard of the fall migration, are in nearly complete winter plumage on their arrival 
here. One taken at Okanagan on July 7 has already acquired most of its gray winter 
dress. Earliest fall records, adults, July 7; young, July 15. Bill black; feet in adult 
dark gray to black; in young usually dark gray, sometimes tinged with yellowish, and 
in some cases greenish gray, bright olive green on front of tarsi. 
16. Ereunetes mauri. Western Sandpiper. West of the Cascades this sandpiper 
is abundant in fall and much scarcer in spring. Hast of that range I have only three 
records, all in the fall. It does not form one percent of the flocks of Hreuwnetes that 
pass down the Okanagan Valley every autumn. It seems to be decidedly later; earliest 
fall record, adults, July 24; young, August 3. Bill black; feet grayish black. 
17. Calidris leucophaea. Sanderling. Common along the coast; scarce in the in- 
terior. Earliest fall record, adult, July 25; young, August 15; late record, November 2 
(at Comox). Bill and feet black. 
18. Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. Almost exclusively confined to the coast. 
One inland record, Okanagan, August 7, 1910. 
19. Totanus melanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. Common in spring and fall, 
and breeding in the interior at least as far south as Clinton. Earliest fall record for 
Okanagan, adults, June 22; young, July 11. Bill olive, black on terminal third; feet 
yellow, varying from bright ochre yellow and dull maize yellow, to medium cadmium. 
The inner edge of the primaries is occasionally freckled as in Helodromas solitarius 
cinnamomeus, in one adult even more so. 
20. Totanus flavipes. Lesser Yellow-legs. Common in fall, scarcer in spring. 
Warliest fall record, adults, July 9; young, July 26. Soft parts as in Totanus melano- 
leucus. 
21. WHelodromas solitarius solitarius. Solitary Sandpiper. Noted regularly on 
fall migrations both east and west of the Cascades for the last twenty years. Identi- 
fication corroborated by Mr. Brewster. The proportion to the western subspecies is as 
two to five, only those specimens haying all the characteristics of the eastern subspe- 
cies being classed as H. s. solitarius. Earliest fall records, adults, August 10; young, 
August 5. Bill olive green, tip black; feet pale olive green, in young birds sometimes 
yellow ochre slightly tinged with green. 
22. Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus. Western Solitary Sandpiper. Common 
in the fall, very much scarcer in spring, throughout southern British Columbia. I have 
not found it breeding south of lat. 53°. The deep buff spotting of the upperparts is con- 
fined to the young birds in first plumage. In these it is probably the best distinction 
from the eastern subspecies, as the other characters, freckling of inside web of the 
primaries and absence of the loral stripe, are not constant. The adult in full spring 
plumage has the spots white, exactly as in the eastern subspecies; in newly molted fall 
plumage these are obscure and brownish. In all adults that I have, the freckling of 
the inside web of the primaries is constant, and the size is consistently larger when 
birds are compared with the same sex of the eastern subspecies. TFarliest fall records 
for Okanagan, adults, July 7; young, July 19. Color of soft parts as in H. solitarius 
solitarius. 
23. Catoptrophorus semipalimatus inornatus. Western Willet. One specimen shot 
at Clover Point near Victoria, August 18, 1898, by Mr. J. Henley (Provincial Museum 
Catalogue). 
. 24. Heteractitis incana. Wandering Tattler. Absolutely confined to the coast 
line during migrations. Earliest fall records, adults, July 26; young, September 20. Bill . 
blackish olive; feet dull ochre to deep ochre yellow. 
25. Bartramia longicauda. Upland Plover. This year I found the Upland Plo- 
ver breeding just west of the Rockies at New-Gate, B. C. (Gateway, Montana); one spe- 
cimen taken May 30, 1919. It probably breeds sparingly some distance farther west, 
