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(Titusville and Fort Myers), southern Tennessee (near Chattanooga), 

 northeastern Arkansas (Big Lake), northern New Mexico, and north- 

 western Nevada (Truckee liivcr). West to Oregon and northwestern 

 Washington (near Tacoma). North to southeastern Alaska (Stikine 

 River), central British Coliimhia (Cariboo district), southern Mac- 

 kenzie (Great Slave Lake), northern Manitoba (Churchill), eastern 

 Ontario (Algonquin Park), and perhaps the interior of Labrador. 



Winter range. — Mainl}^ in the Southern States. Nortli to Massa- 

 chusetts, Pennsylvania, Lake Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, 

 and southern British Columbia (Comox and Okanagan). South to 

 Cuba and southern Mexico (Orizaba and Jala])a). 



Spring migration. — Earl}^ dates of arrival: Iowa, central, March 5; 

 Minnesota, Heron Lake, March 20; Ontario, Ottawa, March 2L 

 Average dates of arrival: New York, western, March 20; Ontario, 

 Ottawa, April 18; Michigan, southern, March 19; Iowa, central, 

 March 22; Minnesota, Heron Lake, April 5. 



Fall migration. — Average dates of arrival: New York, western, 

 October 15; Virginia, Alexandria, October 2(3. Average dates of de- 

 parture: Quebec, Montreal, October 29; Minnesota, southern, No- 

 vember 10; Iowa, central, November 26. 



Casual records. — Accidental in Bermuda (January 10, 1849, and 

 December 23, 1850), Great Britain (Wales, winter 1830-31), Ireland 

 (County Cork, December, 1878, and County Kerry, January, 1881), 

 and AUiska (St. Michael, October, 1865). 



Egg dates. — IMichigan: Four records, April 22 to May 19. Illinois: 

 Three records, March 15, April 29, and May 5. Iowa: One record, 

 June 5. Montana: Four records, April 27 to May 28. Washington: 

 One record, April 21. Missouri: One record, June 13. 



MERGELLUS ALBELLUS (Linnaeus). 



SMEW. 



liABITS. 



This is a Palaearctic sj>ecies, of rare and doubtful occurrence 

 as a straggler, on the North American continent. It is included in 

 our check list on the strength of a female in the British Museum pur- 

 chased from the Hudson's Bay Company, said to have been taken in 

 Canada, but with no data as to the exact locality; there is also a 

 record of a female, which Audubon (1840) claims to have taken in 

 Louisiana in 1819, which is open to doubt. Evidently Wilson's 

 (1832) references to the abundance of this species in New England 

 were based on incorrect identifications. 



On the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe it is fairly 

 common in winter and in the eastern Mediterranean quite abundant, 

 whence it retreats northward in April to its breeding grounds in the 

 northern portions of Europe and Asia. 



