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There are six records for England, Warwick, October 31, 1851, 

 Cambridge, December 12, 1854, Bigswear, January 19, 1855, Fal- 

 mouth November 13, 1865, Boulmer, November 21, 1879 and the 

 Parret Kiver in Somersetshire (date ?); one for Denmark Tim, 

 November 3, 1920; one for Malta, November 17, 1865; one for Hol- 

 land (Meyer) ; one for Germany, Hessen (Naumann) ; and one for 

 Italy, Liguria, October, 1859. It also was taken near Sydney, 

 Australia, in 1865 (Gould). 



Egg dates. — New England and New York : 10 records, April 28 to 

 June 13. Pennsylvania and New Jersey : 15 records, May 6 to June 

 11 ; 8 records, May 15 to 27. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Dakotas, and 

 Minnesota : 86 records. May 4 to July 1 ; 43 records, June 1 to 15. 

 Ohio to Iowa and Kansas: 22 records, April 30 to June 17; 11 

 records, May 14 to 20. 



TRYNGITES SUBRUFICOLLIS (VieUlot) 

 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER 



HABITS 



My acquaintance with this species is limited to a few birds seen 

 migrating in company with golden plover on the burnt-over prairies 

 about Quill Lake, Saskatchewan. I have never seen it elsewhere. 

 Like the upland plover, it is a sandpiper which has associated much 

 with plover, frequents similar haunts, and has acquired some similar 

 habits. 



Spiing. — ^W. H. Hudson (1922) gives a striking account of the 

 spring migration of this species in Argentina during its former 

 abundance, from which I quote, as follows : 



Now, one autumn, when most of the emigrants to the Arctic breeding grounds 

 had already gone, I witnessed a great migration of this very species — this 

 beautiful sandpiper with the habits of a plover. The birds appeared in flocks 

 of about one to two or three hundred, flj'ing low and very swiftly due north, 

 flock succeeding flock at intervals of about 10 or 12 minutes; and this migra- 

 tion couiinued for three days, or at all events three days from the first day 

 I saw them, at a spot about 2 miles from my home. I was amazed at their 

 numbers, and it was a puzzle to me then, and has been one ever since, that a 

 species thinly distributed over the immense area of the Argentine pampas and 

 Patagonia could keep to that one line of travel over that uniform green, sea- 

 like country. For outside of that line not one bird of the kind could anywhere 

 be seen; yet they kept so strictly to it that I sat each day for hours on my 

 horse watching them pass, each flock first appearing as a faint buff-colored 

 blur or cloud just above the southern horizon, rapidly approaching then passing 

 me, about on a level with my horse's head, to fade out of sight in a couple of 

 minutes in the north; soon to be succeeded by another and yet other flocks 

 in endless succession, each appearing at the same point as the one before, 



