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Collison Point, and probably Demarcation Point) ; northern Macken- 

 zie (Cape Bathurst and probably Cape Kellett) ; Victoria Land 

 (Taylor Island) ; and Franklin (Fury Point and Melville Peninsula). 

 East to Franklin (Melville Peninsula) ; possibly Keewatin (Cape 

 Fullerton) ; and possibly Greenland (Sutherland Island). South to 

 possibly Keewatin (Cape Fullerton) ; Mackenzie (probably Bernard 

 Harbor, Coleville Hills, and Franklin Bay) ; and Alaska (Hooper 

 Bay), West to Alaska (Hooper Bay and Wainwright). 



In common with several other shore birds, nonbreeding specimens 

 of this species are frequently found during the summer months at 

 points far south of the breeding grounds. At this season they have 

 been taken or observed in Maine (Western Egg Rock) ; Massachusetts 

 (Monomoy Island, Marthas Vineyard, and Harvard) ; New York 

 (Quogue, Freeport, Rockaway, Long Beach, and Geneva) ; New 

 Jersey (Tuckerton, Great Bay, and Absecon Bay) ; Ohio (Bay 

 Point) ; Virginia (Cobb Island and Cape Charles region) ; South 

 Carolina (Mount Pleasant, Magnolia Beach, and White Point 

 Swash) ; Florida (Fort De Soto, Amelia Island, Key West, Fer- 

 nandina, and Daytona Beach) ; Alabama (Dauphin Island) ; Louisi- 

 ana (Breton Island) ; Texas (Corpus Chrjsti) ; Jamaica (Port 

 Henderson) ; and the Galapagos Islands. 



In the Palaearctic region it breeds from the eastern tundras of 

 Arctic Europe eastward throughout Arctic Asia to Kamchatka and 

 on Kolguev and the Siberian Islands. 



Winter range. — The American winter range extends north to 

 Washington (Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Dungeness Spit) ; Texas 

 (Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Rockport, and Matagorda) ; Louisi- 

 ana (Breton Islands) ; Alabama (Dauphin Island) ; and Virginia 

 (Wallops Island). East to Virginia (Wallops Island and Sandy 

 Island) ; North Carolina (Pea Island and Southport) ; South 

 Carolina (Mount Pleasant and Port Royal) ; Georgia (Darien, 

 Cumberland, and St. Marys) ; Florida (Amelia Island, Fort George, 

 Seabreeze, Mosquito Inlet, Lake Okeechobee, Miami, and Upper 

 Matecumbe Key) ; the Bahama Islands (Abaco, Eleuthera, Watling, 

 Acklin, and Great Inagua) ; Haiti (Monte Christi) ; probably French 

 Guiana (Cayenne) ; and Brazil (Cajetuba and the Amazon region). 

 South to Brazil (Amazon region ) ; and Peru (Callao). West to Peru 

 (Callao, Chimbote, and Tumbez) ; Ecuador (Bay of Santa Elena) ; 

 the Galapagos Islands (Albemarle) ; Colombia (Cartagena) ; prob- 

 ably Costa Rica (mouth of the Martina River) ; probably Guatemala 

 (Chiapam) ; Oaxaca (San Mateo) ; Lower California (San Jose del 

 Cabo, La Paz, and San Geronimo Island) ; California (Coronado, 

 Wilmington, Santa Cruz Island, Los Banos, San Francisco, and 

 mouth of Eel River) ; Oregon (Newport) ; and Washington (Point 

 Chehalis and Strait of Juan de Fuca). 

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