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to the observations of Kellogg, the}' reached Emporia April l-i, 1884, 

 and April 13, 1885/ ^ In Iowa, the last recorded specimen was taken 

 at Burlington in the extreme southeastern part of the State, April 

 5, 1893, by Paul Bartsch.^ The bulk of the birds reached southern 

 Nebraska about April 2 to 25 and remained until the 15th to 25th of 

 May; in northern Nebraska they were apparently most numerous 

 in early May. The van reached Heron Lake, Jackson County, in 

 southwestern Minnesota, April 3, 1884, and the next year (1885) were 

 noted at this place on April 24.- In southeastern South Dakota, 

 the bulk arrived at Vermilion, Clay County, May 3, 1884,- whik 

 Coues reported them present in large flocks between Fort Eandall 

 and Yankton during the second week in May, 1873.* 



By latter May the curlews had reached their breeding range in 

 the far north, on the Barren Grounds of Mackenzie, within the 

 shadow of the Arctic Circle or even within the circle itself. They 

 reached Fort Resolution, near the south shore of Great Slave Lake, 

 May 26, 1860, Kennicott mentioning in his journal the taking of a 

 specimen there on that date.^ At Fort Anderson, Mackenzie, near 

 the arctic coast, they were noted May 27, 1865, by MacFarlane.^ 

 In this latter locality the birds bred abundantly, MacFarlane col- 

 lecting some 30 sets of eggs on the Barren Grounds east of Fort 

 Anderson on June 13, 1863, June 16, 1864, and June 16, 1865.^ Pre- 

 viously Richardson had found " one of these curlews hatching on 

 three eggs on the shore of Point Lake," Mackenzie, on June 13, 

 1822.^ He also found these birds at Fort Franklin, on the west 

 shore of Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie, late in May, 1849, but this was 

 probably too early for nests.^ The breeding range probably ex- 

 tended from Alaska to Labrador, as these curlews penetrated even as 

 far to the northwest as Point Barrow, at the apex of the north Alaska 

 coast, where, though " rare and irregular," it was first seen by Mur- 

 dock May 20, 1882, and last seen July 6 of that year, thus probably 

 being present through the breeding season.^'^ Also, eastwardly it 

 was recorded by Kumlien as passing in small flocks northward in 

 June, 1878, at Cumberland Bay, and a specimen was taken. ^^ It was 



1 Cooke, W. W. Bull. 35, Bureau of Biological Survey, pp. 74-76, 1910. 



2 Cooke, W. W. Bull. 2, Division of Economic Ornithology, p. 98, 1888. 

 ^Anderson, R. M. Proc. Davenport Acad. Sciences, 11, p. 227, 1907. 



■* Coues, E. Birds of the Northwest, pp. 510-512, 1874. 



5 Biography of Robert Kennicott ; Committee, Chicago Acad. Sciences, in ; Trans. Chi 

 cago Acad. Sciences, 1, p. 172, 1869. 



8 Preble, North American Fauna, No. 27, p. 332, 1908. 



''McFarlane, R. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 14, p. 429, 1891. 



8 Swainson, W., and Richardson, J. Fauna Boreali-Americana. London, 2, p-. 378, 1831. 



» Richardson, J. Arctic Searching Expedition : A Journal of a Boat- Voyage through 

 Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the Discovery Ships under command of 

 Sir John Franklin, London, 2, p. 108, 1851. 



i» Murdock, J. Auk, 2, p. 63 and p. 201, 1885. 



n Kumlien, L. Bull. 15, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 88, 1879. 



