74 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



to Point Barrow, and breeding seatteringly in other parts of the 

 north from Ontario, Minnesota and British Columbia; it is 

 strangely scarce in the United States in migration, except perhaps 

 on the coast prairie of western Louisiana and Texas, where it 

 is found in dense flocks in spring. It is not found in California 

 and ver\^ rarely on the Atlantic coast. In winter it goes to 

 South America as far as Uruguay and Peru; frequently found 

 in Europe and Cuba. 



On September 15, 1901, Mr. Chas. W. Tindall killed nine 

 Buff-breasted Sandpipers on a sandbar in the Missouri River 

 near Independence. Mr. Chas. K. Worthen of Warsaw, 111., 

 once took a small flock of this species on a sandbar in the Missis- 

 sippi River. There are quite a number of fall records from the 

 neighborhood of Chicago, and from southeastern Nebraska, 

 among them two of recent date, September 11, and 18, 1904, 

 Lincoln, Neb.; but spring records are few, through G. S. Agers- 

 borg states (Auk vol. 2, p. 286), that he found the Bufi-breasted 

 Sandpiper in southeastern South Dakota in abundance in spring, 

 " when it arrives in large flocks. Only ver}^ few are seen on the 

 return passage." 



*263. AcTiTiSMACULARiA (Linn.). Spotted Sandpiper. 



Tringa macularia. Totanits macuiarius. Tringoides macvlarius. Peet- 

 weet. Sand-lark. Tip-up. Teeter-tail. Common Sandpiper. 



Geog. Dist. — ^^Vhole of North, Middle and South America, 

 except Greenland. Breeds throughout the United States and 

 almost to the Arctic coast, ^^'inters south of the United States, 

 going as far south as southern Brazil. 



In Missouri a fairly common summer resident along the large 

 rivers from April 15 to October 20, and a common transient 

 visitant in spring on all streams, ponds and lakes, and in July, 

 August and September numerous on the sandbars of the larger 

 rivers. 



264. NuMENius LONGiROSTRis Wils. Long-billed Curlew. 



Sickle-bill. 



Geog. Dist. — Formerly an inhabitant of the whole United 

 States, breeding from Texas northward as well as in the South 

 Atlantic States and locally in the Mississippi Valley north to 

 \\ isconsin and Minnesota; now their breeding range is restricted 

 to the western and northwestern states, east to western Kansas 



