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but usually the bulk passed on, and, flying both day and night, 

 probably without landing, did not land until the Lesser Antilles 

 had been reached. Passing through these islands, they continued 

 along the eastern portion of Brazil to Argentina, their winter 

 home". Barrows reports them arriving at Conception del Uru- 

 guay, in large flocks, Sept. 9, 1880, and remaining until the middle 

 of October. At Bahia Blanca they were seen every day until late 

 in February, but after March they had disappeared-'. Most of 

 the birds arrived in Argentina about the middle of September and 

 wintered in the campos region of that country, mostly south of 

 Buenos Aires". They occurred south to the Chabut valley, Pata- 

 gonia, according to Durnford, and according to Abbott a specimen 

 was taken on the Falkland Islands". On the west coast they were 

 rare, but occurred in Chile south to Chiloe". 



But if easterly storms occurred, the birds would be driven out 

 of their line of flight, and great flocks would occur on the coast 

 of New England, and, less commonly, the shores of the middl-? 

 and southern states. (3r, if westerly storms prevailed, they might 

 be driven far out to sea or even across the Atlantic, as there arc 

 several records of the occurrence of the species on the British 

 Tsles in the fall. On September 6, 1855. one was recorded from 

 Cairn Moncarn, near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire-^, two others 

 were also taken on unknown dates on the .\lde at Aldeburgh, and 

 at Woodbridge, both in Sufl:'olk-'', a fourth was purchased in 

 Dublin, in the flesh, October 21, 1870''", another individual at 

 Slains, Aberdeenshire, September 28, 1878-'V, and a sixth bird, a 

 male, at Forest of Birse, Kincardineshire, September 21, 1880-'- 

 On May 26, 1906, an Eskimo Curlew ca-ne on shipboard abom 

 halfway between Ireland and Newfoundland ( Lat. 49" 06' N., 

 Long. 27° 28' W.) in a fatigued condition"-'^-. 



-'Barrows, W. B. Auk. i, p. 316, 1884. 



""Longmuir, Naturalist, p. 265. 1855, and Varrell, British Birds, ii. p. 620. 



'"'Hele, Notes about Aldeburgh, p. 177, and Haning, Handbook of British 



Birds, p. 145. 

 "'Blake Knox. Zoologist, p. .2408, 1870. 

 '"Sim, Scottish Naturalist, p. 36, 1879. 

 "Harvie-Brown, Zoologist, p. 485, 1880. 

 ■'"Barbour. R. Auk. xxiii, p. 459, 1906. 



