Upperside of tail: dark centers, light sides. (like Pectoral) Underside of tail: not seen Leg: - greenish yellow. Could see no difference between this color and that of some Pectorals. Behavior: Standing on dusty dirt dille bordering one of the ponds as if it were going to roost there with 30 Pectorals and 150 Least + Western Sandpipers. Flushed to mudflat where it perched on top of a dead weed clump. Voice: Not heard Habitat: drying settling pond in agricultural area. How identification was decided - elimination of similar species: Not a Pectoral because 1) Breast nearly completely unstreaked - bright buffy. The only streaks were on extremely narrow band which formed a type of collar. 2) face and head pattern very strikingly different - very white cheeks and eyebrow -- different face pattern (drawing: red with streak, brownish eyeline, white face and eyes, faint orange streeks, solid bright buffy, white) 3) orange in primaries 4) red cap is apparently not diagnostic - we saw Pectorals with very red caps. But the sharpness with which it contrasts with very broad light eyebrow is probably diagnostic. Not a Reeve or Buff-breasted because 1) red cap 2) body shape like Pectoral - squatty and short-legged not erect and long-legged 3) V- pattern on back like Pectoral -- not scaly like Reeve or Buffie. 4) no eye-ring like Buffie. Legs not bright orange-yellow like Buffie 5) no broad white patches on upper-tail coverts like Ruff What amazed me how was how obvious this bird was - it really was strikingly different at 100 yds. Prior experience with this species and similar species: One adult in breeding plumage at Barrow, Alaska G-11-72 This description written from -- notes made during observation / X memory / notes made after observation Others seeing the bird (addresses of two): Ruth Stallcup, Georgianne Mandoli, John & Susanne Luther, David Gaines, Steve Bailey, Kimball Garrett, Don Robertson, Richard Dean, Bill Principe, Gary Zamzow, Dan Boelter Signed Van Reman Date 10-8-73 Your address: Dept. of Zoology Univ. of Calif Berkeley CA 94720