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Wi7iter range. — The winter range of moHnella can be defined but 

 little better as the records are frequently confused with Arenarm i. 

 interpres, to which some of the following may refer. Their range at 

 this season appears to extend north to California (rarely San Fran- 

 cisco Bay) ; Texas (Fort Brown, Point Isabel, Refugio County, and 

 the Sabine River); probably Louisiana; probably North Carolina 

 (Fort Macon) ; and Bermuda (Ireland Island). East to Bermuda 

 (Ireland Island) ; South Carolina (Mount Pleasant, and Frogmore) ; 

 Georgia (Savannah, Blackbeard Island, and Darien) ; Florida 

 (Fernandina, St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, Mosquito Inlet, Cocoa, 

 Fort Pierce, and Key West) ; the Bahama Islands (New Providence, 

 and Great Inagua) ; Haiti (Monte Cristi, and Samana) ; Porto Rico 

 (Mameyes, and Culebra Island) ; Lesser Antilles (Sombrero, St. 

 Bartholomew, Carriacou, and Tobago) ; British Guiana (probably 

 Abary River) ; French Guiana (probably Cayanne) ; and Brazil 

 (Para, Cajetuba Island, Fernando Noronha, and Abrolhos Island). 

 South to Brazil (Abrolhos Island) ; and Chile (Valdivia). West to 

 Chile (Valdivia, Talcahuano, Paposo, and Atacama) ; Peru (prob- 

 ably Chorillos) ; the Galapagos Islands (Albemarle, Hood, Indefatig- 

 able and Bindloe Islands) ; Honduras (Swan Island) ; Guatemala 

 (Chiapam) ; Mexico (the Valley of Mexico) ; Lower California 

 (San Jose del Cabo, and Magdalena Bay) ; and California (rarely 

 San Francisco Bay). Occasionally also, wintering as far north as 

 Sanakh, Alaska (Littlejohn). 



Spring imgratimi. — Early dates of spring arrival are : Virginia, 

 Accomac County, May 8, Chesapeake, May 10, and Locustville, May 

 11; New Jersey, Ocean City, May 5, Cape May, May C, and Long 

 Beach, May 16; New York, Fair Haven Light, May 10, Montauk 

 Point, May 12, and Canandaigua, May 14; Connecticut, New Haven, 

 May 18, and Norwalk, May 19; Rhode Island, Newport, May 13, and 

 Sachuest Point, May 14; Massachusetts, Nantucket, May 1, Woods 

 Hole, May 5, and Monomoy Island, May 6; Maine, South Harpswell, 

 May 20, and Portland, May 22 ; Nova Scotia, Pictou, May 24 ; Frank- 

 lin, Winter Island, June 10; Illinois, Northeastern, April 30, Engle- 

 wood, May 22, Chicago, May 23, and Waukegan, May 24; Indiana, 

 Starke County, May 20, and Wolfe Lake, May 23; Ohio, Lakeside, 

 May 11, Oberlin, May 15, Huron, May 17, and Painesville, May 28; 

 Michigan, Detroit, May 13, Kalamazoo County, May 20, and Ann 

 Arbor, May 25; Ontario, Toronto, May 18, Kingston, May 20, Moose 

 Factory, May 26, and Mitchells Bay, May 31; Nebraska, Lincoln, 

 May 18 ; Iowa, Burlington, Maj 21 ; Minnesota, Lake And, May 20, 

 Minneapolis, May 21, and Walker, May 24 ; Wisconsin, Madison, May 

 22; South Dakota, Coteau des Prairies, May 26, and Fort Sisseton, 

 May 27; Manitoba, Shoal Lake, May 25; Saskatchewan, He a la 



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