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Nulato, and along the west coast of Alaska from the 

 mouth of the Kuskokwim River to Kotzebue Sound. 

 The shoveller has a wide range in the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere, breeding north about to the Arctic Circle, and 

 retiring in winter to northern Africa and southern Asia. 



Winter Range. A few pass south in winter to Colom- 

 bia, South America (Medellin, Bogota), Panama, Costa 

 Rica, and through the West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Porto 

 Rico, St. Thomas, Barbados and Trinidad.) It is rare 

 in Florida, and seems not to have been noted in the 

 Bahamas. The Carolinas are the only place on the At- 

 lantic coast where the species is common. It is not rare 

 in Maryland, and there are a few winter records for New 

 Jersey. The greater portion of the species winters in 

 the southern Mississippi Valley, north rarely to southern 

 Illinois accidental Jan. 11, 1892, at Lanesboro, Minn. 

 and south through Mexico to central Guatemala; indeed 

 many hundreds of thousands are said to winter near 

 Lake Chapala, Jalisco. At this season it is found in New 

 Mexico, Arizona, all of California, and less commonly 

 north on the Pacific coast to southern British Columbia. 

 Numbers winter in the Hawaiian Islands. During flight 

 between the winter and summer home it passes through 

 the northeastern United States, not rarely through Penn- 

 sylvania and New York, and formerly it was not rare in 

 Massachusetts; but for the last fifteen years there has 

 been hardly more than a single record a year for the 

 whole of New England. 



Spring Migration. Records of the movements of this 

 species are not numerous enough to permit exact state- 

 ments. Migration begins late in February, but is slight 

 before the middle of March, at which time the species 



