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Oaxaca (Tehuantepec) ; Jalisco (Manzanillo and La Barca) ; and 

 Tepic (Ocaponeta River). 



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

 Florida, Banana Creek, March 10, Smyrna, March 26, and Pensa- 

 cola, April 5; North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, May 19; New York, 

 Long Island, May 18; Connecticut, Westport, May 28, and West 

 Haven, May 80; Rhode Island, Sakonnet, May 9; Maine, Saco, 

 May 5; Missouri, Kansas City, April 30; Illinois, Chicago, May 26; 

 Iowa, Sioux City, May 7, Emmetsburg, May 10, and Wall Lake, 

 May 23; Wisconsin, Racine, April 10; Minnesota, Wilder, May 1, 

 and Waseca, May 14; Texas, Bonham, March 29; Kansas, McPher- 

 son, May 7 ; Nebraska, Kearney, May 6, and Neligh, May 10 ; South 

 Dakota, Harrison, May 5, Vermilion, May 9, and Sioux Falls, May 

 14; North Dakota, Harrisburg, May 1, and Sweetwater, May 5; 

 Manitoba, Whitewater Lake, May 12; Colorado, Barr, April 27, 

 Fort Lyon, May 2, Colorado Springs, May 14, and Loveland, May 

 20; Wyoming, Cheyenne, May 25; Alberta, Fort Chipewyan, June 

 6; Mackenzie, Fort Resolution, May 19, and Athabaska delta, June 

 4; and Alaska, Demarcation Point, May 23. 



Stilt sandpipers also have been detected as late as April in Cuba 

 and Jamaica while a late date for their departure from Lake 

 Palomas, Mexico, is April 7, from Dummetts, Florida, April 14 and 

 Port Orange, Florida, May 5. 



Fall migration. — Early dates of arrival for the species on its 

 return from the North are: Colorado, Barr, July 5; North Dakota, 

 Benson County, July 1, and Nelson's Lake, July 14; South Dakota, 

 Forestburg, July 7; Nebraska, Lincoln, July 19; Iowa, Sioux City, 

 July 12; Texas Corpus Christi, July 3; Ontario, Toronto, July 18; 

 Maine, Chebeague Island, July 19, and Scarboro, July 30; New 

 Hampshire, Rye, July 31; Massachusetts, Cape Cod, July 4, and 

 Needham, July 24; Rhode Island, Newport, July 6, and Block Is- 

 land, July 15; New York, East Hampton, July 11; North Carolina, 

 Churches Island, July 29 ; Bahama Islands, Fortune Island, August 

 5; Barbados, July; St. Batholomew, September; and Paraguay, 

 Kilometer 80, September 20. 



Late dates of fall departure are: British Columbia, Sumas Lake, 

 September 19 ; Colorado, Fort Lyon, September 8, Larimer County, 

 September 9, and Barr, October 5 ; Mackenzie, Fort Simpson, August 

 19, and Lower Slave River, August 27 ; Manitoba, Carberry, August 

 29, and Qu'Appelle, September 16; Nebraska, Lincoln, November 11; 

 Kansas, Lawrence, September 19; Wisconsin, Kelley Brook, Septem- 

 ber 13; Iowa, Burlington, September 28; Ontario, Toronto, Sep- 

 tember 26 ; Ohio, Columbus, October 4 ; Illinois, Chicago, September 

 1, Grand Crossing, September 23, and Cantine Lake, September 28; 

 Missouri, St. Louis, September 12, and Kansas City, September 28; 



