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May 30; Colorado, Denver, May 5; Idaho, Rupert, April 28; and 

 Montana, Billings, May 19. Migrants also have been observed to 

 arrive at points on the Gulf coast as Texas, Port Lavaca, March 18 ; 

 Louisiana, Sandfly Pass, March 16, and Vermilion Bay, April 27; 

 and Florida, Merritts Island, March 10, and Titusville, March 11. 



Fall migration. — Late dates of fall departure are: Oregon, Nar- 

 rows, October 26; California, Fresno, September 15, Tulare Lake, 

 October 7, Buttonwillow, November 13, and Riverdale, November 19 ; 

 Utah, Ogden, October 8; Colorado, Windsor, November 5; and 

 New Mexico, Jornada, September 25. 



Casual records. — The black-necked stilt has been reported from 

 many of the eastern States but some of these are indefinite or other- 

 wise unsatisfactory. Among those that are considered valid are 

 Mississippi, Vicksburg, July 13, 1913; Alabama, Leighton, August 

 26, 1892; South Carolina, Sullivans Island, May, 1881 (possibly 

 breeding) ; New Jersey, Stone Harbor, April 24, 1894, and Cape May, 

 July 21, 1843; New York, Great South Bay, two taken, one in 1843; 

 New Hampshire, Rye Beach, reported as taken several years pre- 

 vious to 1902 ; Maine, Rockland, one taken early in May, 1889 ; New 

 Brunswick, Maces Bay, one in September, 1880 ; Iowa, Hawarden, one 

 in 1890, Webster County, several in the summer of 1898 ; Wisconsin, 

 Racine, April, 1847 ; North Dakota, Hankinson, July 29, 1921 ; Kan- 

 sas, Wichita, one killed in 1906; and Nebraska, a few occurrences 

 around Omaha in 1893, 1894, and 1895. One also was taken on San 

 Nicholas Island of the Santa Barbara group, California, on May 

 25, 1897. 



Egg dates. — California: 140 records, April 26 to August 4, 70 

 records, May 21 to June 8. Utah: 12 records, May 10 to June 24, 6 

 records, May 14 to 23. Texas: 23 records, April 17 to June 11; 12 

 records, April 26 to May 28. Florida: 90 records, April 14 to June 

 25 ; 45 records, April 14 to May 6. 



Family SCOLOPACIDAE, Snipes and Sandpipers 



SCOLOPAX KUSTICOLA Linnaeus 



EUROPEAN WOODCOCK 



HABITS 



This fine large member of the snipe family is widely distributed 

 in Europe and Asia and has occurred as a straggler in North America 

 half a dozen times or more at various points from Newfoundland to 

 Virginia. 



Seton Gordon (1915) gives a very good idea of its distribution 

 and migrations, as follows : 



