OLD CROW 



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Hypothetical migration routes of Scolopacidae are shown 



in the f ol- 



lowing tabulation: 











Species 



Arctic nesting in 



Northern wintering 



Route through 

 U. S. and Canada 



Coming 

 toward 













Old Crow 













from 



Capella gallinago 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 



British Columbia to 



(?) 





East or West 



delicata 



Alaska 



Alabama 









Numenius phaeo- 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 



Central California 



Pacific Coast 





East 



pus hudsonicus 



Alaska 











Actitis macularia 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 

 Alaska 



British Columbia 



(?) 





(?) 



Tringa solitaria 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 



Ecuador 



Mountain 





(?) 



cinnamomea 



Alaska 











Totanus flavipes 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 

 Alaska 



Mexico 



Prairie 





Northwest 



Erolia melanotos 



Southampton to Siberia 



Peru 



Interior 





Northwest 



Erolia bairdii 



Greenland to Siberia 



Ecuador 



Prairie 





Northwest 



Erolia minutilla 



Mackenzie, Yukon, 

 Alaska 



Oregon to North 

 Carolina 



(?) 





(?) 



Ereunetes pusillus 



Baffin Island to Alaska 



Gulf coast 



Interior 





Northwest 





Capella gai 



llinago delicata (Ord) 







1 male 



May 22 weight 96.3 g. medium fat 



testes 7x15, 5x7 mm. 



1 male 



June 5 weight 93.0 g. very 



little fat 



testes 7x15, 8x12 mm. 



4 slightly in- 



Jime 7 



— - 



— 







cubated eggs 













Wilson's snipe were reported by Neil McDonald during the evening 

 of May 7. On the next day their presence was apparent in the per- 

 sistent winnowing over the lake and marshes back of the village. 

 Until June the winnowing was often carried on with several snipe in 

 the air steadily for a few hours, but some individual birds were 

 noticed descending after only five minutes of winnowing Jflight. After 

 May the winnowing was heard less often. 



Joe Kay found a nest with four eggs on June 7. The first egg 

 would have been laid about May 31. Peter Lord reported hearing the 

 first snipe at his camp in the northern part of Crow Flats on May 

 16. Barbara Oakeson (1954) reported snipe on May 9 at Mountain 

 Village, Alaska. At Anaktuvuk the mean first date from 1950 through 

 1953 was May 16, but in 1957 the surprisingly early date of May 8 was 

 reported there. The number of snipe heard and seen during the 

 early season at Old Crow appeared to be considerably in excess of the 

 nesting territories about the village, suggesting that there was some 

 migratory passage. 



The Indian name is Tazyah^ meaning "calling from the sky." 



Snipe reach the Arctic in Mackenzie, Yukon, and Alaska. Since the 

 wintering range extends from British Columbia across the northern 

 States there is no basis in recorded migrations for suspecting how the 

 Arctic nesting population travels. Rand (1946) remarked that "we 

 havfr no records of snipe having been even moderately common in 



