Jan., 1920 THE LIMICOLAE OF SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA 51 
as I have heard of its eggs being taken just east of Osoyoos Lake (Mr. C. deB. Green). 
There are records for migrations from Vancouver Island to the Cariboo district, at 
various points. Eyelid yellow; bill black on culmen and tip, rest of bill and gape lem- 
on yellow; feet normally pale wax yellow, claws black; in one specimen the feet are 
palé ochre tinged with flesh color, 
26. Tryngites subruficollis. Buff-breasted Sandpiper. West of the Cascades, at 
Sumas, I used to see this sandpiper almost every fall; east of the Cascades, at Okana- 
gan, in much more suitable country, I have not yet seen it. Harliest fall record (young 
only), August 7. Bill black; feet bright ochre yellow. 
27. Actitis macularia. Spotted Sandpiper. Summer resident throughout the 
Province. Bill in adult varying (in individuals) from yellow ochre to pale orange; cul- 
men in winter tinged with dusky, tip at all times black. Feet varying from flesh color 
to dull greenish yellow. Young, upper mandible grayish olive, lower fleshy gray, tip 
dusky; feet pale greenish ochre, sometimes grayish flesh color tinged with yellowish. 
28. Numenius americanus. Long-billed Curlew. Summer resident in open 
semi-arid areas in the interior as far north as 150-mile House. A scarce transient on 
the coast. No legislation will save this fine bird, as the bringing under cultivation of 
its nesting grounds is gradually causing its extermination. The favorite nesting site 
is a summer fallow, and the eggs are destroyed by the cultivator. The great increase 
of crows is also a serious factor; these get the eggs and young, and in some districts, 
where the nesting grounds are still all natural range pasture, these pests have all but 
exterminated the curlews. Bill in adults dusky brownish, flesh colored on basal half of 
lower mandible; feet dirty leaden blue. In the young the colors are purer, the basal 
half of lower mandible being clear purplish pink, the feet clear leaden blue. 
29. Numenius hudsonicus. Hudsonian Curlew. Common on migrations along 
coast line; not yet recorded inland. Colors of soft parts as in Numenius americanus, 
the feet averaging duller and grayer. 
30. Squatarola squatarola. Black-bellied Plover. Common migrant, scarcer in- 
land. Fall records (earliest), adults, August 12; young, August 24. Bill black; feet 
dark blackish gray. 
31. Charadrius dominicus dominicus. American Golden Plover. Tolerably com- 
mon and regular fall migrant; very scarce in the spring, when I have only three rec- 
ords. At Sumas Lake, a few miles north of the Washington boundary, it is especially 
common in September and October, although I have seen large flocks as far east as 
the base of the Rocky Mountains at the source of the Columbia River. In the west it 
seems to be a bird of the mudflats, not of grassy prairies. Earliest fall record, Aug- 
ust 19. Bill black; feet dark slate gray. 
32. Charadrius dominicus fulvus. Pacific Golden Plover. I still have one of the 
four birds that I took on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of November, 1903, at Comox, Vancouver 
Island. It is quite typical of the Asiatic bird in its bright golden plumage, buffy under- 
surface tinged with yellow, and long tarsi. Measurements, in millimeters, 2°, wing 163, 
culmen 23, tarsus 44, middle toe with claw 29. Bill black, feet slate gray. 
33. Oxyechus vociferus. Killdeer. Common resident throughout southern Brit- 
ish Columbia. A few remain all winter even in the interior, but are usually driven 
south, or succumb to the cold. Eyelid scarlet vermilion, more orange in young birds; 
bill black; feet livid flesh color tinged with bluish; claws dusky. 
34. A€Egialitis semipalmata. Semipalmated Plover. Migrant, not common; 
coast and interior, breeding as far south at least as the north end of Graham Island, 
where Mr. C. deB. Green has taken several sets of the handsome eggs. Earliest fall 
records for southern B. C., adults, July 24; young, August 12. Eyelids yellow in adult 
and young; bill in adult dull orange on basal half, tip black; in young the orange is 
abruptly confined to base of lower mandible; anterior aspect of foot and tarsus ochre 
yellow, posterior orange yellow, claws black. 
35. Aphriza virgata. Surf-bird. Migrant and possible winter resident on the 
coast. Earliest fall records, adults, July 24; young, September 2. Bill black or dark 
blackish olive in adult, base of lower mandible dull orange; feet light olive, some- 
times strongly yellowish. Young with bill dark olive, tip black; feet yellowish. 
36. Arenaria interpres morinella. Ruddy Turnstone. Migrant along the coast- 
line, very much scarcer than the Black Turnstone. One record for Sumas Lake, Aug- 
