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with binoculars, no Spoon-bills could be found. The fall migra- 

 tion was much in evidence at this time. Whether Granville's 

 birds were some that had bred at Wainwright, as he supposed, or 

 were merely stragglers from Siberia after the breeding season, is 

 uncertain. The true status of the species at this point can only 

 be settled by further field work at Wainwright Inlet during the 

 breeding season. 



+ Breeding Record 



• American Record 



■ Asiatic non-breedfno Record 



Fig. 2. Map showing summer record stations of Spoon-billed Sandpiper. 



From our present data, the range of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper 

 may be defined as follows: The breeding habitat lies along the 

 Arctic coast of northeast Siberia, possibly also at favorable locali- 

 ties on the Alaskan coast (see Fig. 2), spring and fall migration route 

 along the Asiatic shores of Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, and 

 winter home in southern India. The following record of speci- 

 mens from the ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum ' (Sharpe, 

 1896, p. 537) affords an outline of the migration route of this bird. 

 An adult male, still in summer plumage, was taken August 8, at the 

 mouth of the Amur River in southwestern Russia. An immature 



