224 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN DIVING BIRDS 



Melville Island in August, and two birds seen near Wainwright Inlet, 

 Alaska, August 10, 1914. 



Winter range. From southern Greenland (Ivigtut and Arsuk) 

 south along the coast to New York (Long Island), rarely to New 

 Jersey (Cape May, Egg Harbor, Delaware River), Virginia (Chinco- 

 teague Bay, Cobbs Island, Smiths Island), North Carolina (Curri- 

 tuck Sound, Roanoke Island) , and South Carolina (Beaufort) . Also 

 from the British Isles and the North Sea south along the coasts of 

 Holland, France, and Spain to the Azores, Canary, and Madeira 

 Islands. 



Spring migration. Birds leave the coast of Maine about March 15. 

 Massachusetts: May 1 (latest). Rhode Island: April 27 (latest). 

 New York: Long Island, in April (latest May 29). An unusually 

 late record is Vermont : Bennington, May 3 1 . Grand Manan : May 4. 

 Latitude 48 20' north, longitude 46 30' west: May 22. They arrive 

 in Greenland: Davis Strait, May 20; Baffin Bay, May 18 (rarely in 

 April); Bowdoin Bay, May 8; Smith Sound, May 26; Spitzbergen, 

 March 28; Franz Josef Land, February 25. 



Fall migration. Probably starts in July in Greenland: Davis 

 Strait, common in July; Foulke Fiord, last, September 3; Cape 

 Parry, last, September 11; Bowdoin Bay, last, September 6; north- 

 eastern Greenland, latitude 75, August 2 (latest). Labrador: Cape 

 Harrison, September 18. Anticosti Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, in 

 September. Birds reach New England usually in November. Early 

 dates are: Maine coast, July 15. Massachusetts: Cape Cod, Septem- 

 ber 10; Nantucket, October 11. Connecticut: September, 1874. 

 New York: Long Island, August. 



Casual records. Wisconsin: Point Washington, January 11. 

 Michigan: Detroit River, November 30. Bermuda Island, January 

 28. The two Ontario records prove to refer to specimens of the an- 

 cient murrelet. 



Egg dates. Greenland: 19 records, June 7 to July 28; 10 records, 

 June 16 to July 12. Iceland: 4 records, June 3, 8, and 28, and July 12. 



