SPOTTED SANDPIPER 93 



less than some of the other Limicolae by reason of its more solitary 

 habit. The gunners, waiting for several of their tiny target to come 

 within range of a single shot, often disregarded a spotted sandpiper 

 running alone on the shore. 



Winter. — Most of the spotted sandpipers leave the United States 

 to spend the winter on the islands to the southward, and in South 

 America, but the species is nevertheless well represented in California 

 during the winter, and in the Southern States on the Atlantic 

 seaboard. 



George Willett (1912) "found this species plentiful in winter 

 around Santa Barbara Islands and on rocky shores of the mainland." 

 .Dr. Alexander Wetmore (1916) speaking of the bird as a winter 

 visitant of Porto Eico says : 



It frequents the mangrove swamps, borders of lagoons, margins of all the 

 streams, and occasionally the sandy beaches. During the winter season it fol- 

 lows inland along the small streams and occurs throughout the island. 



And (1927) reporting the birds' winter status in South America 



says — 



it is a regular migrant in South America as far as Bolivia and southern Brazil, 

 and on March 4, 1918, several were found by Mogensen at Concepcion, Province 

 of Tucuman, in northern Argentina. On October 25, 1920, one was taken by the 

 writer near the mouth of the Rio Ajo on the eastern coast of the Province of 

 Buenos Aires, the southernmost point at which the species is known. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North and South America; accidental in Europe. 



Breeding range. — The breeding range of the spotted sandpiper ex- 

 tends north to Alaska (Kobuk River, Fort Yukon, and Circle) ; 

 Yukon (La Pierre House) ; Mackenzie (Fort McPherson, Arctic Red 

 River, Fort Anderson, Aylmer Lake, Clinton-Colden Lake, and Ar- 

 tillery Lake) ; Manitoba (Fort Du Brochet, Fort Churchill, and York 

 Factory); Ungava (Fort Chimo) ; and Labrador (Okak). East of 

 Labrador (Okak and Rigolet) ; eastern Quebec (Sloop Harbor and 

 Wolf Bay) ; Newfoundland (Humber River and Penguin Island) ; 

 Nova Scotia (Breton Island, Pictou, and Yarmouth) ; Maine (Thom- 

 aston) ; New Hampshire (Portsmouth) ; Massachusetts (Boston and 

 Woods Hole) ; Rhode Island (Block Island) ; New York (Shelter 

 Island) ; New Jersey (Red Bank and Five-mile Beach) ; Maryland 

 (Cambridge) ; Virginia (Cobb Island and Richmond) ; North Caro- 

 lina (Kona, Fort Macon, and Wilmington) ; and probably South 

 Carolina (Chester and Columbia). South to probably South Caro- 

 lina (Columbia) ; probably Georgia (Okefinokee Swamp) ; Alabama 

 (Autauga County and Greensboro) ; Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton 

 Rouge, and Vermilion Bay) ; Texas (Corsicana, Calhoun County, 



