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part. October 20; Quebec, Montreal, September 3; Maine, Popham 

 Beach, September 13; Massachusetts, Newburyport, September 7; 

 New York, Shinnecock Bay, September 15; New Jersey, Cape May, 

 September 14; North Carolina, Beaufort, November 17; and South 

 Carolina, Mount Pleasant, November 3. 



Casual records. — The marbled godwit has on several occasions been 

 recorded outside of its normal range principally to the south and 

 east of its winter quarters. Among these are : Ecuador (Santa Rosa, 

 1877) ; Lesser Antilles (Grenada, August 29, 1881, and also from the 

 islands of Carriacou and Trinidad) ; Porto Rico (recorded from 

 Boqueron by Gundlach) ; and Cuba (recorded from Cardenas in 

 September by Gundlach). It also has been noted from Alabama 

 (near Greensboro, in 1880, and Dauphin Island, August 21, 1911) ; 

 Ontario (Toronto, May 30, 1895, and June 7, 1890) ; Arizona (San 

 Pedro River, January 27, 1886) ; and Alaska (Ugashik, July 16 and 

 18, 1881, Nelson Island, July 5, 1910, and Point Barrow, August 

 26, 1897). 



Egg dutes. — Saskatchewan: 38 records, May 15 to June 27; 19 

 records, May 30 to June 9. Minnesota and Dakotas: 16 records. 

 May 10 to June 14; 8 records, May 25 to June 8. 



LIMOSA LAPPONICA BAUERI Nansnarm 

 PACIFIC GODWIT 



HABITS 



The bar-tailed godwit of Europe is represented in eastern Siberia 

 and western Alaska by this larger race, with a more spotted ramp. 

 From the above breeding grounds it migrates to a winter range in 

 Australia, New Zealand, and many oceanic islands. South of Alaska 

 it is a mere straggler in North America. 



Spring. — On its spring migration the Pacific godwit passes 

 through the Aleutian Islands and the Pribilof Islands on its way to 

 its breeding grounds in northwestern Alaska. I saw two birds on 

 Atka Island on June 13, 1911, probably belated migrants; it has been 

 said to breed near Unalaska, but this seems hardly likely. William 

 Palmer (1899) reported it as a migrant in the Pribilof Islands from 

 early in May until June 13. Probably the main northward flight 

 passes through the Kurile and Commander Islands to northeastern 

 Siberia. Dr. E. W. Nelson (1887) sa}'s of its arrival in Alaska: 



On May 26, 1877, while I was at Unalaska, a native brought in a half dozen 

 of these hirds, and on June 3 I obtained three others from the sandy beach of a 

 small inner bay. They were very unsuspicious and easily killed. Although 

 these birds appeared to be migrating, yet the following years I found them 

 arriving at Saint Michael in flocks of from 25 to 200 from the 13th to 20th of 

 May. These flocks were shy and kept in continual motion, wheeling and circling 



