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Late dates of spring departure are: Florida, Palma Sola, May 

 11; North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, May 20, and Cape Lookout, 

 May 24 ; Maryland, Hail Point, May 23 ; Missouri, Corning, May 25 ; 

 Tepic, San Bias, April 28, and Los Penas Island, May 5; and 

 Lower California, Turtle Bay, April 14, and mouth of the Colorado 

 River, May 15. 



Fall migration. — Early dates of fall arrival are: Lower Cali- 

 fornia, San Quintin, July 4, and San Jose del Cabo, August 26; 

 Sonora, Altar, September 14; New Hampshire, Rye Beach, August 

 12; Massachusetts, Amesbury, July 21, Plymouth, August 9, and 

 Cape Cod, August 27; Rhode Island, Newport, July 15; New York, 

 Orient Point, July 9, and Long Beach, July 24; Maryland, Ocean 

 City, August 19; South Carolina, Frogmore, August 7, and Ladys 

 Island, August 9; Florida, Tarpon Springs, July 5; and Alabama, 

 Dauphin Island, August 21. 



Late dates of fall departure are: British Columbia, Okanagan 

 Landing, October 29; Washington, Grays Harbor, October 7; 

 Oregon, Klamath Lake, November 19 ; Montana, Big Sandy, August 

 25, and Choteau, September 4; Idaho, Neeley, October 1; Utah, 

 Fillmore, November 19; Wyoming, Cheyenne, August 9, and Yel- 

 lowstone Park, August 22; Colorado, Denver, September 12, Yuma, 

 September 30, and Barr, October 22 ; Saskatchewan, Eastend, August 

 6, and Quill Lake, August 11 ; Manitoba, Westbourne Marsh, October 

 8 (Nash) ; South Dakota, Rapid City, August 3, and Hermosa, 

 August 15 ; Nebraska, Whitman, August 25, Valentine, September 1, 

 and Long Pine, September 6; Michigan, Washtenaw County, Sep- 

 tember 12, and Ann Arbor, September 15 ; Ohio, Cleveland, Septem- 

 ber 15; Missouri, Jasper County, October 15; Quebec, Montreal, 

 September 21; Massachusetts, Plum Island, September 2; Rhode 

 Island, Jamestown, September 9 ; New York, Fishers Island, Septem- 

 ber 10, and Montauk Point, September 12; New Jersey, Cape May, 

 September 14; and Virginia, Wallops Island, September 6, and 

 Cobb Island, September 25. 



Casual records. — As previously stated, the long-billed curlew is 

 now of casual or accidental occurrence east of the Mississippi River, 

 although it was formerly fairly plentiful on the Atlantic coast. 

 Macoun reports it as a rare emigrant in Newfoundland without 

 particulars, and in the lack of subsequent confirmation it seems 

 probable that he was misinformed. Preble (1908) records a speci- 

 men that was taken several years previous in the vicinity of Fort 

 Simpson, Mackenzie. Several occurrences have been recorded for 

 Alaska, among which are: Bethel, five seen May 9, 1917, by J. J. 

 Brown (authority of A. H. Twitchell) ; a specimen, without date or 



