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directly east and directly west to the ocean coasts. A wanderer was 

 taken at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 26, 1897 (Stone), and several 

 specimens have been taken on Hudson Bay (Preble). Individuals 

 probably sometimes winter in California, as one was taken at Hum- 

 boldt Bay, December 7, 1885 (Townsend), and at Lake Elsinore, 

 February, 1902 (Nordhoff). 



Spring migration. — ^The marbled godwit is among the earlier 

 migrants of the shorebirds; it reaches central Illinois in early April 

 (Griffin) ; Heron Lake, Minnesota, average April 12, earliest April 8, 

 1889 (Miller); Lincoln, Nebr., April 18, 1899 (Wolcott); Loveland, 

 Colo., average April 27, eariiest April 20, 1887 (Smith); Shoalwater 

 Bay, Washington, April 13, 1854 (Cooper); southern Manitoba, 

 average May 1, eariiest April 29, 1901 (Wemyss); southern Sas- 

 katchewan, average May 3, earliest April 16, 1907 (Lang). Nearly 

 all of the few spring records on the Atlantic coast are in May. 



Eggs have been found at Oakland Valley, Iowa, April 20, 1878 

 (Rice); Winnebago, Iowa, May 6, 1871 (Krider); Miner County, 

 S. Dak., May 16, 1892 (Patton); Minnewaukan, N. Dak., May 22, 

 1892 (Eolfe); in Grant County, Minn., May 24, 1876 (Sennett); and 

 in southern Saskatchewan, May 29, 1905 (Bent). The birds and their 

 young were common June 8, 1820, near the mouth of the Loup Fork 

 of the Platte, Nebraska (Say). 



Fall migration. — The return movement begins in July, since 

 migrants have been taken at Ugashik, Alaska, July 16, 1881 (Osgood), 

 on the New Jersey coast late in the month (Stone), and on Pea and 

 Bodie islands, North Carolina, July 11, 1904 (Bishop). A gunner 

 who shot for the market near Newport, E. I., obtained only 26 of 

 these godwits during eight seasons, the extreme dates ranging from 

 August 6, 1873, to October 2, 1868 (Sturtevant). The latest date 

 in Colorado is October 1, 1874 (Henshaw). 



Pacific Godwit. Limosa lapponica baueri Naum. 

 The principal breeding range of the Pacific godwit is in northeastern 

 Siberia, but a few individuals cross to Alaska and breed from Un- 

 alaska (Dall) to Kotzebue Sound (Grinnell). After the breeding 

 season some wander northward to Point Barrow (Murdoch). They 

 arrive on their breeding grounds early in May (Nelson), and are among 

 the earliest of the waders to begin the fall migration (Nelson). The 

 latest one seen at Point Barrow was August 18 (Murdoch), and 

 early in September the last have left North America. The migration 

 route passes through the Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, Japan, 

 China, and the Philippines. The winter home is in Australia, New 

 Zealand, the Malay Archipelago, and many of the islands of 

 Oceania. The Pacific godwit has been noted several times in the 

 Hawaiian Islands (Bryan), and a straggler was once taken at La 

 Paz, Lower California (Belding). 



