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River). West to Brazil (Guapore River); northeastern Colombia 

 (Carthao-ena) ; probably Panama (Rio Juan Diaz) ; Yucatan (Me- 

 rida and Coziimel Island) ; Tamaulipas (Matamoros) ; and Texas 

 (Brownsville). 



Spring migration.— Eavlj dates of spring arrival are : New Jersey, 

 Cape May, March 22, Long Beach, April 6, and Caldwell, April 7; 

 Rhode Island, Rock Island, April 27 ; Massachusetts, Nantucket, May 

 2, Dennis, May 5, and Falmouth, May 11; and Nova Scotia, Yar- 

 mouth, April 22, and Wolfville, April 29. 



Late dates of spring departure are : Mexico, Tampico, April 11 ; and 

 Cuba, Trinidad, April 14, Siguanea, May 2, and Guantanamo, May 8. 



Fall migration. — Information is lacking of the early arrival of the 

 willet on the southern part of its winter range, but among late dates 

 of fall departure are : Maine, Sagadahoc County, October 25 ; Massa- 

 chusetts, Plymouth, October 4; Connecticut, Meriden, October 15; 

 New Jersey, Salem County, October 8, and Caldwell, October 17 ; and 

 Maryland, near Baltimore, about November 1. 



Casual records. — The willet has been taken once in Kansas (near 

 Hamilton, September 8, 1912) ; and one was obtained in Bermuda 

 on July 3, 1848. It also has been reported on a few occasions from 

 Europe, in all cases without complete data : France (Abbeville, also 

 two in the Paris market) ; Dalmatia; and Sweden. 



Egg dates. — Nova Scotia: 4 records, June 5 to 19. Virginia: 26 

 records. May 19 to June 16; 13 records. May 27 to June 8. South 

 Carolina and Georgia: 53 records, March 10 to July 4; 27 records, 

 May 9 to 22. Texas: 28 records, April 3 to June 10; 14 records, 

 April 23 to May 24. 



CATOPTROPHORUS SEMJPALMATUS INORNATUS (Brewster) 

 WESTERN WILLET 



HABITS 



When William Brewster (1887) described and named the western 

 willet he characterized it as : 



Differing from S. semipalmata iu being larger, with a longer, slenderer bill; 

 the dark markings above fewer, finer, and fainter, on a much paler (grayish- 

 drab ground) ; those beneath duller, more confused or broken, and bordered 

 by pinkish salmon, which often spreads over or suffuses the entire underparts, 

 excepting the abdomen. Middle tail feathers either quite immaculate or very 

 faintly barred. 



It is a bird of the western interior ; its main breeding grounds are 

 in the Great Plains regions of the Northern States, west of the Mis- 

 sissippi River, and the central Provinces of Canada. Nearly all 

 recent writers have recorded it as breeding on the coasts of Louisiana 



