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Fall migration.— Early dates of fall arrival are : California, Santa 

 Barbara, July 22 ; Arizona, Apache, July 29, Cave Spring, August 1, 

 and White Mountains, August 10 ; Montana, Terry, June 28 ; Wyom- 

 ing, New Castle, July 7 ; Colorado, Lytle, July 6, Middle Park, July 

 13, and El Paso County, July 23 ; New Mexico, Zuni Mountains, July 

 24; and Texas, Brownsville, July 31. 



Late dates of fall departure are: Alaska, Taku Kiver, September 

 15; British Columbia, Okanagan Landing, September 26; Washing- 

 ton, Seattle, September 11; California, Santa Barbara, September 7; 

 Arizona, San Pedro River, October 10; Lower California, Agua 

 Escondido, November 18; Montana, Missoula, September 4, Terry, 

 September 5, and Bitterroot Valley, September 7 ; Wyoming, Yellow- 

 stone Park, September 4, and Green River, September 5; Colorado, 

 Boulder, September 18, Florissant, October 5, and Greeley, October 

 25 ; and New Mexico, Acoma, September 27, and Glenrio, October 2. 



TRINGA OCEOPHUS Linnaeus 

 GREEN SANDPIPER 



Contril}uled hy Francis Charles Rohert Jourdain 



HABITS 



The green sandpiper is only an accidental visitor to North America. 

 Swainson and Richardson (1831) record it from Hudson Bay, but 

 this is now generally acknowledged to be probably due to error. 

 However, Dr. T. M. Brewer (1878) mentions a specimen obtained at 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1872 or 1873 and forming part of a collec- 

 tion made there which was purchased by J. E. Harting from a dealer 

 at Woolwich. The evidence is far from satisfactory and Seebohm's 

 remarks (1884) should be consulted, but the skins in question are 

 still in existence in the collection of the British Museum. 



Courtship. — It is a most remarkable fact that though the green 

 sandpiper is widely distributed during the breeding season over tem- 

 perate Europe and is by no means a shy or retiring bird, even though 

 it haunts the recesses of wooded marshes and wet forests, yet there is 

 hardly anything on record about its courtship activities. Seebohm 

 writes that the notes " are no doubt modulated into a musical trill as 

 the male performs his amatory excursions in the air during the pair- 

 ing season," but adds that he has never had the good fortune either 

 to hear the love song or to find it described. Fortunately Prof. 

 C. J. Patten (1906) met with a pair which frequented a moorland 

 stream in the neighborhood of Sheffield from May 3 to June 4, 1903. 

 He says : 



