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Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti. It winters in southern United States, 

 north on the Atlantic coast to Cobb Island, Virginia (Rives), in the 

 interior to Mount Carmel, 111. (Ridgway), San Angelo, Tex. (Lloyd), 

 San Pedro, Ariz. (Scott), Pecks Lake, Ariz. (Mearns), and St. Thomas, 

 Nev. (Bailey) ; and along the whole Pacific coast from San Jose del 

 Cabo, Lower California (Frazar), to Chilliwack and Okanogan, B. C. 

 (Brooks). It has been noted in winter near Cambridge, Mass. 

 (Brewster), Buckhannon, W. Va. (Day), and at Barr Lake, Colo. (Her- 

 sey and Rockwell), and in late fall migration in Bermuda (Hurdis), 

 and on Clipperton Island, southwest of Mexico (Beck). 



Spring migration. 



Place. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 years' 

 records, 



Average 

 date of 

 spring 

 arrival. 



Earliest date 

 of spring 

 arrival. 



Raleigh, N. C 



Scott Depot, W. Va 



Gunpowder Marsh, Md 



Renovo, Pa 



Erie, Pa 



Branchport, N. Y. (near). . . 



Cambridge, Mass 



Montreal, Canada 



Quebec City, Canada 



Knoxville, Tenn 



Versailles, Ky 



Central Missouri 



Southern Illinois 



Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind 



English Lake, Ind 



Brookville, Ind 



Chicago, 111 



Rockford, 111 



Waterloo, Ind 



Oberlin, Ohio 



Vicksburg, Mich 



Southern Ontario 



Ottawa, Ont 



Keokuk, Iowa 



Sioux City, Iowa 



Laporte, Iowa 



Delavan, Wis 



La Crosse, Wis 



Heron Lake, Minn 



Lanesboro, Minn 



Minneapolis, Minn 



White Eartn, Minn 



Manhattan, Kans 



Onaga, Kans 



Southeastern Nebraska 



Southeastern South Dakota. 



Reaburn, Man.. 



South Qu'Appelle, Sask 



Osier, Sask 



Fort Vermilion, Alta 



Fort Simpson, Mackenzie. 



Gila City, Ariz 



Camp Grant, Ariz 



Boulder, Colo 



Loveland, Colo 



Cheyenne, Wyo 



Rathdrum, Idaho 



Great Falls, Mont 



Chilliwack, B.C 



Mar. 19 



Apr. 22 



Mar. 17 

 Mar. 15 



Mar. 31 

 Mar. 25 

 Apr. 4 

 Apr. 9 

 Apr. 2 

 Mar. 28 

 Apr. 23 

 May 3 

 Mar. 28 

 Mar. 25 

 Mar. 30 

 Mar. 26 

 Apr. 2 

 Apr. 1 

 Apr. 18 

 Apr. 19 

 May 2 



Apr. 12 

 Apr. 3 

 Apr. 7 

 Apr. 28 

 Apr. 25 



Mar. 21 

 Apr. 26 

 Apr. 10 



Apr. 6 



Mar. 15 

 Mar. 14 

 Mar. 5 

 Mar. 28 

 Apr. 12 

 Apr. 18 

 Apr. 28 

 May 14 

 Mar. 27 

 Mar. 24 

 Feb. 23 

 Feb. 26 

 Jan. 10 

 Feb. 14 

 Mar. 26 

 Mar. 19 

 Mar. 19 

 Mar. 17 

 Mar. 9 

 Mar. 19 

 Mar. 15 

 Apr. 27 

 Mar. 13 

 Mar. 21 

 Mar. 16 

 Mar. 24 

 Mar. 25 

 Mar. 16 

 Apr. 

 Apr. 

 May 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 27 

 Apr. 17 

 Apr. 20 

 May 1 



1894 

 1910 

 1894 

 1892 

 1906 

 1880 

 1897 

 1903 

 1909 

 1910 

 1895 

 1908 

 1893 

 1909 

 and 1911. 



June 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 20 

 Feb. 27 

 Mar. 10 

 Apr. 12 

 Apr. 25 

 Apr. 26 



1907 

 1893 

 1900 

 1898 

 1888 

 1890 

 1893 

 1890 

 1909 

 1904 

 1898 

 1890 

 1901 

 1891 



1891 

 1907 

 1908 

 1904 

 1885 

 1892 

 1900 

 1909 



1905 

 1894 

 1869 

 1904 

 1887 

 1888 

 1903 

 1892 



Rare, winter. 



The coot is reported to remain in northern Florida to May 2, 1908, 

 average, April 30; Canaveral, Fla., April 29, 1889; Washington, 

 D. C, May 2, 1904; southern Louisiana, May 18, 1898, average, 



