SHORE BIRDS 
286.1. Frazar’s Oyster-catcher. Hcemcitopus bachmani. 
Range. — Lower California. 
This species is darker on the back than the preceding, 
and the breast is mottled with dusky. Bill very long, 
heavy, compressed, and thin and chisel-like at the tip. 
Brownish buff. 
Bill and eyes red; legs flesh color; under parts white, and 
a white wing bar. These are large, awkward looking birds. 
It is not an uncommon wader in its somewhat restricted 
range. Its nesting habits are the same as those of the 
preceding one, but the markings are generally more sharply 
defined. The one figured is from a set in the collection of 
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Mr. C. W. Crandall. 
287- Black Oyster-catcher. Haematopus bachmani. 
Range. — Pacific coast of North 
America from Lower California 
north to Alaska. 
This species is the same size as 
the Oyster-catcher, but the plumage 
is entirely black both above and be- 
low. They are found upon the 
rocky coasts and islands, more fre- 
quently than upon sandy beaches. 
Their eggs are laid upon bare rocks 
or pebbles with no attempt at lin- 
ing for the nest. The eggs are an 
olive buff in color, spotted and 
blotched with brownish black. 
Size 2.20 x 1.55. Breeding through- 
out the Aleutian Islands, British 
Columbia and south to Lower California. 
Olive buff. 
Three or four eggs are laid. 
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