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April 9; Lower California, Gardner's Lagoon, April 19; and south- 

 ern California, Santa Barbara, May 2. 



Fall migration. — Early dates of fall arrival are : British Columbia, 

 Courtenay, July 7, and Okanagan Landing, July 19; California, 

 Balboa Bay, July 6, Santa Barbara, July 18, and Fresno, August 6 ; 

 Lower California, San Quentin, August 10, and San Jose del Cabo, 

 August 28; Tehuantepec, San Mateo, August 12; Montana, Billings, 

 July 31; Utah, Provo River, July 24; Saskatchewan, Hay Creek, 

 July 3; Colorado, Barr, July 5, and Denver, July 24; North Dakota, 

 Devil's Lake, July 20, and Mouse River, August 10 ; Texas, Browns- 

 ville, July 11; New York, Long Island, July 16; North Carolina, 

 Pea and Brodie Islands, July 7; and South Carolina, near Charles- 

 ton, July 20. 



Late dates of fall departure are: British Columbia, Chilliwack, 

 October 29; Washington, Seattle, October 9, and Point Chehalis, 

 October 19; northern and central California, Easton, October 18, 

 Alameda, October 29, and Stockton, November 5; Wyoming, Hut- 

 ton's Lakes, October 14; Colorado, Denver, October 3; Manitoba, 

 Margaret, October 10; South Dakota, Harrison, November 2; Ne- 

 braska, Valentine, October 28 ; Kansas, Lawrence, October 3 ; Minne- 

 sota, St. Vincent, October 9; Missouri, St. Louis, October 28; New 

 York, Long Island, November 2 ; and South Carolina, September 10. 



Casual records. — Occurrences of the long-billed dowitcher outside 

 of its normal range must, of necessity be based upon the evidence 

 of specimens, as it is frequently confused with the more common 

 dowitcher of the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Florida. Seven 

 were collected in the District of Columbia in April, 1884; one at 

 North Haven, Connecticut, August 5, 1886; Hamilton, Ontario, 

 August 21, 1891 ; Leighton, Alabama, May 15, 1891 ; Dauphin Island, 

 Alabama (2), July 5, 1913; Detroit, Michigan, August 26, 1905; 

 Yokohama, Japan, March 13; and Yezo, Japan, October 13. 



Egg dates. — Arctic Canada : 18 records, June 6 to July 5 ; 9 records, 

 June 21 to July 3. Alaska : 17 records, May 29 to July 1 ; 9 records, 

 June 3 to 19. 



MICROPALAMA HMANTOPUS (Bonaparte) 

 STILT SANDPIPER 



HABITS 



Strangely enough I have never seen, or rather recognized, a stilt 

 sandpiper in life. As it is often associated with the lesser yellow- 

 legs and so easily mistaken for it, I may have overlooked it. It is a 

 rare bird in the localities where most of my work on shorebirds has 

 been done and it does not seem to be very common anywhere. It 



