68 NORTH AMEKICAUr SHOEEBIBDS. 



Winter raTige. — It winters in Argentina and Uruguay, south at 

 least to Buenos Aires (Durnford) and Montevideo (Gould). 



Migration range. — ^Many thousand miles separate the summer and 

 winter homes of the species, and the migration route between these 

 widely separated regions seems to be somewhat different from that 

 of any other species. The main body of migrants follows the Barren 

 Grounds to the shores of Hudson Bay, thence almost due south across 

 the Mississippi Valley to the coast of Texas and through Central 

 America to northwestern South America and diagonally across the 

 interior of South America to Argentina. 



The buff-breasted sandpiper is a rare fall migrant on the Atlantic 

 coast: Henley Harbor, Labrador, August 20, 1860 (Coues); Port 

 Burwell, Ungava, September 28, 1884 (Bell); Quebec, three records, 

 August 28 (Merriam) to September (Trowbridge); Cape Elizabeth, 

 Me., September 13, 1887 (Knight); Scarboro, Me., September 5, 1907 

 (Norton) ; several records on the coast of New England and on Long 

 Island, the latest of which is September 11, 1904, on Long Island 

 (Braislin). South of Long Island there are no recent records, and 

 most of the older ones are open to suspicion. The species was seen 

 once in April in Cuba (Gundlach), twice in the fall on Barbados 

 (Feilden), and a record for the island of Trinidad (Leotaud) is some- 

 what doubtful. It is practically unknown in spring on the Atlantic 

 coast of the United States. It is not known in the Rocky Mountain 

 region, but on the Pacific coast it has been taken at Cape Flattery, 

 Wash. (Newberry); in southern British Columbia (Brooks); Sitka 

 (Bischoff), St. Michael (Nelson), and Nulato (Dall and Bannister), 

 Alaska. 



Spring migration. — Migrants appear in the interior of Brazil 

 (Pelzeln) and in Peru (Sclater and Salvin) during March, but there 

 are no spring migration data for the whole distance between Peru 

 and Texas. In the State of Texas the species was noted April 22, 

 1887, in Refugio County (Sennett), and April 23, 1877, at Gainesville 

 (Ragsdale). The first were seen at Fort Chipewyan, May 24, 1901 

 (Preble); Fort Simpson, May 29, 1860 (Ross); Yukon delta, May 30, 

 1879 (Nelson); St. Michael, May 31, 1880 (Nelson); Point Barrow, 

 June 8, 1882 (Murdoch), and June 6, 1883 (Murdoch). 



Eggs were taken on the Barren Grounds near Franklin Bay, June 

 26, 1864, and June 28, 1865 (MacFarlane) ; and at Point Barrow, 

 June 18, 1883 (Murdoch). 



Fall migration. — The fall migration of this species and of most 

 other waders begins in July, and so rapidly do the birds move south 

 that they have been noted the last of this month in Nebraska (Bruner, 

 Wolcott, and Swenk); Gainesville, Tex., August 4, 1883 (Ragsdale); 

 San Jose, Costa Rica, September 7, 1890 (Cherrie); and Cienega, 

 Colombia, September 12, 1898 (Allen). The southern part of the 



