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May 15 ; Massachusetts, Dennis, May 5 ; and Quebec, Prince of Wales 

 Sound, May 27, Quatachoo, May 29, and Mingan Islands, May 29. 



Fall migration. — Early dates of fall arrival are Quebec, Bras 

 d'Or, August 4; New Brunswick, Grand Manan, August 13; On- 

 tario, Toronto, October 27, Ottawa, October 29, and Hamilton, 

 October 31; Maine, Metinic Green Island, August 6, Saddleback 

 Ledge, August 19 ; Massachusetts, Cape Cod, September 6, Chatham, 

 September 8, and Nahant, October 13; Rhode Island, Sachuest 

 Point, September 13 ; and New York, Montauk, November 1, Orient, 

 November 1, and Long Beach, November 2. 



Late dates of fall departure are: Greenland, Possession Bay, 

 September 1, and Thank God Harbor, September 3; Mackenzie, 

 Great Bear Lake, September 16 ; and Franklin, Wellington Channel, 

 August 28, Kingwah Fjord, September 6, Cumberland Gulf, Sep- 

 tember 13, and Pangnirtung Fjord, October 21. 



Casual records. — The purple sandpiper has been reported as seen 

 at the entrance to St. George Harbor, Bermuda, and there are a few 

 records for the south Atlantic coast and the interior, among which 

 are: New Jersey, Delaware Bay (specimen in British Museum), 

 Beach Haven, October 31, 1896, and one found dead at the Absecon 

 Lighthouse; Georgia, one in the Sennett collection taken, March 5, 

 1874; Florida, Key Biscayne, October 29, 1857, and Gordan's Pass, 

 November 1, 1886; Missouri, Boonville, between April 16 and May 

 31, 1854 ; Illinois, near Chicago, November 7, 1871 ; Ohio, Sandusky, 

 November 19, 1925, and Painesville, October 22, 1916, and October 

 24, 1922 ; and Wisconsin, Door County, May, 1881. 



Egg dates. — Greenland : 18 records, May 16 to June 30 ; 9 records, 

 June 1 to 19. Iceland : 6 records, May 21 to June 17. Baffin Island ; 

 2 records, July 21 and 28. 



ARQUATELLA PTILOCNEMIS PTILOCNEMIS (Coues) 

 PRIBILOF SANDPIPER 



HABITS 



As explained under the Aleutian sandpiper, this bird is probably 

 not a subspecies of the purple sandpiper; so the name maritima can 

 not be used for either ptilocnemis or couesi. I have therefore thought 

 it best to follow Ridgway (1919) in the use of his names for the 

 Pribilof and Aleutian sandpipers, rather than use the Check List 

 names. 



The Pribilof sandpiper has the most restricted distribution of any 

 North American sandpiper. In summer it is confined to the chilly 

 and foggy uplands of the Pribilof Islands, the equally cool, damp 

 lowlands of St. Matthew Island, Hall Island, and perhaps St. 

 Lawrence Island, all in Bering Sea. And its known migration 



