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ber 13; Nebraska, Lincoln, October 80; Kansas, Topeka, September 

 15; Minnesota, Lanesboro, September 15; Wisconsin, Racine, October 

 1; Iowa, Marshalltown, October 12, and Burlington, October 15; 

 Ontario, Ottawa, October 5, London, October 16, and Point Pelee, 

 November 15; Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, October 1, and Detroit, 

 October 15; Ohio, Salem, October 9, Youngstown, October 26, and 

 Dayton, November 16; Illinois, Chicago, October 0, and Cantine, 

 October 17; Missouri, St. Louis, October IT; Prince Edward Island, 

 North River, October 27; Nova Scotia, Wolfville, September 24; 

 Quebec. Montreal, October 18; Maine, Lewiston, October 17; Mas- 

 sachusetts, Dennis, October 21, Boston, October 23, Harvard, October 

 24, and Lynn, October 25; Connecticut, Middleton, October 7, and 

 New Haven, October 23; New York, Canandaigua, October 14, Sing 

 Sing, October 20, New York City, October 24, Shinnecock Bay, Oc- 

 tober 30, and Ithaca, November 1 ; New Jersey, Morristown. Sep- 

 tember 24, Cape May. October 2, and Elizabeth, October 16; Penn- 

 sylvania, Beaver. October 3; and District of Columbia, Washington, 

 October 26. 



Casual records. — The semipalinated sandpiper is not common in 

 Colorado and Utah, although in both of these States it has been 

 taken on several occasions. Other casual records are Wyoming, 

 Horse Creek, 1859, and Alkali Lake, October 31, 1897; Montana, 

 Fort Keogh. May 15 and 16. 1889, Sweetgrass Hills, August 11, 

 1874, Billings, August 12, 1900, and Miles City, August 14 and 15, 

 1900; Washington, Blaine, August 4 to 8, 1900. Puget Sound, July 

 15, 1857, Shoahvater Bay, May 3. 1854, and Simiahmoo, May, 

 1858 ; and Pribilof Islands, St. Paul Island, June 12, 1890. 



There also are at least three records for the British Isles: Romney 

 Marsh. Kent, September, 1907, Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, October 

 10, 1853, and Northam Burrows, Devon, September, 1869. 



Egg dates. — Arctic Canada: 70 records, June 12 to July 24; 35 

 records, July 3 to 6. Alaska: 33 records, June 2 to July 5; 17 

 records, June 6 to 18. 



EREUNETES MAURI Cabanis 



WESTERN SANDPIPER 



HABITS 



Spring. — The western sandpiper has an unique distribution and 

 peculiar migrations. It occupies a very restricted breeding range in 

 the coastal regions of northwestern Alaska, but is spread out over a 

 wide winter range, entirely across the continent in southern North 

 America, in Central America, and in northern South America. But 

 we knoAv very little about its migration routes between these two 



