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Hammock) : Bahama Islands (New Providence, Watling Islands, 

 and Great Inagua) ; Porto Rico (G'uanica Lagoon) ; and the Lesser 

 Antilles (Antigua, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad). 

 South to the Lesser Antilles (Trinidad) ; northern Venezuela (Cara- 

 cas) ; Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) ; Colombia (Medellin and Puerto 

 Berrio) ; and Panama (Frijole and Chitra). West to Panama 

 (Chitra and the Canal Zone) ; Costa Rica (San Jose) ; Nicaragua 

 (Grey town and the Escondido River) ; Honduras (Comayagua and 

 Manatee Lagoon) ; Guatemala (Duenas and Atitlan) ; Mexico 

 (Guanajuato, Escuinapa, Mazatlan, San Jose del Cabo, and Colonia 

 Diaz) ; California (Salton Sea, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and 

 Eureka) ; and Washington (Tacoma). 



It also has been known to winter (where warm springs or other 

 factors assure open water) north to Nevada (Paradise) , Utah (Provo) , 

 Montana (Terry, Helena, and near Bozeman), Wyoming ( Como and 

 Cody), Colorado (Fountain Creek, Sweetwater Lake, Clear Creek 

 near Denver, and near Julesburg), Nebraska (Holt, Sioux, Dawes, 

 and Cherry Counties, and along the Missouri River), North Dakota 

 (Fort Yates), Iowa (Hancock County), Wisconsin (Milwaukee), 

 Michigan (Grand Rapids), southern Ontario (Barrie), Ohio (Gran- 

 ville), New York (Oneida, Onondaga Lake, Poughkeepsie, Ithaca, 

 New York City, and Long Island), Connecticut (Portland and New 

 Haven), Massachusetts (Jamaica Plain, near Boston, Peabody, Han- 

 cock, and Cape Cod), and Nova Scotia (Wolfville). It has been 

 detected in Alaska at Wrangell, on November 11, 1920, and at Craig, 

 on December 7, 1919. 



Spring migration. — Early dates of arrival in the spring are: 

 District of Columbia, Washington, February 17; Pennsylvania, Phila- 

 delphia, March 7, Harrisburg, March 11, Carlisle, March 18, Berwyn, 

 March 21, and Meadville, March 22 ; New Jersey, Fort Mott, March 

 16, and Pennsville, March 20; New York, Syracuse, February 26, 

 Branchport, March 5, Orient Point, March 12, Buffalo, March 13, 

 Brockport, March 18, Lansing, March 29, Oswego, April 1, and 

 Ithaca, April 3; Connecticut, Portland, March 18, and New Haven, 

 March 19; Massachusetts, Lynn, March 2, Newburyport, March 8, 

 Boston, March 19, Somerset, March 21, and Salem, March 21; Ver- 

 mont, Rutland, April 2; Maine, Farmington, April 6, and Lewiston, 

 April 8 ; Quebec, Quebec, April 18, Montreal, April 19, and Godbout, 

 May 5 ; New Brunswick, Scotch Lake, April 5, Petitcodiac, April 27, 

 and Chatham, April 28; Nova Scotia, Halifax, April 5, Pictou, April 

 11, and Kentville, April 19; Kentucky, Bowling Green, February 24, 

 Guthrie, February 25, and Russellville, February 26; Missouri, St. 

 Louis, February 17, Old Orchard, February 20, Chillicothe, March 

 2, Jonesburg, March 11, and Kansas City, March 14; Illinois, Leba- 



