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winter range in Argentina is reached early in October (Sclater and 

 Hudson). A very early migrant was taken August 3, at Pebas, 

 Peru (Sharpe). Usually the species is rare east of the Mississippi 

 River, but several flocks were seen August 16-18, 1874, at Maywood, 

 111., near Chicago (Fisher). 



Spotted Sandpiper. Aciitis macularia (Linn.). 



Breeding range. — Few shorebirds have so extended a breeding 

 range as the spotted sandpiper. It nests north to Newfoundland 

 (Reeks), the northernmost part of Ungava (Turner), northern 

 Mackenzie (Fort Anderson; MacFarlane), northern Alaska at Fort 

 Yukon (Lockhart), and to the Kowak Valley, in northwestern Alaska 

 (Townsend). It breeds south to northern South Carolina (Chester 

 County; Loomis), central Alabama (Greensboro; Avery), southern 

 Louisiana (New Orleans; Beyer), central Texas (Lacey), southern 

 New Mexico (Carlisle; Barrell), central Arizona (San Francisco 

 Mountains; Mearns), and the southern Sierra of California (Walker 

 Pass; Kaeding), and probably on the Colorado River near Needles 

 (HoUister). 



Wint&^ range. — ^The spotted sandpiper ranges south in winter to 

 central Peru (La Merced; Berlepsch and Stolzmann), central Bolivia 

 (San Francisco; Salvadori), and to southern Brazil (Sao Paulo; 

 Ihering). It is not rare in northern South America, and is tolerably 

 (iommon in Central America and Mexico; a few winter in the West 

 Indies, and a small number in the eastern United States to the coast 

 of Georgia (Helme) and to Port Royal, S. C. (Eaton), and in the 

 western United States to southern Arizona (Dwight) and southern 

 California (Grinnell). 



Spring migration. — ^The spotted sandpiper passes north about the 

 middle of the migration season, as shown by the following dates of 

 arrival : Northern Florida, average March 19 (Pleas) ; Raleigh, N. C, 

 average April 10, earliest April 3, 1893 (Brimley); near Asheville, 

 N. C, average April 13, earliest April 10, 1891 (Cairns); Washington, 

 D. C, average April 22, earliest April 2, 1905 (McAtee) ; near Waynes- 

 burg, Pa., average April 13, eariiest April 6, 1893 (Jacobs) ; Beaver, 

 Pa., average April 20, earliest- April 2, 1888 (Todd); Renovo, Pa., 

 average April 18, earliest April 9, 1904 (Pierce); Erie, Pa., earliest 

 April 18, 1900 (Todd) ; near New York City, average April 26, earliest 

 April 15, 1891 (Burhaus); central Connecticut, average April 25, 

 earliest April 20, 1901 (Case) ; near Providence, R. I., average May 2, 

 earliest April 21, 1905 (Mason); eastern Massachusetts, average 

 April 28, earliest April 15, 1893 (Metcalf); Randolph, Vt., average 

 May 5, earliest April 28, 1891 (Paine); southern New Hampshire, 

 average May 4, earliest April 28, 1905 (Perkins) ; southwestern Maine, 

 average May 1, earliest April 14, 1904 (Norton); Montreal, Canada, 

 average May 13, earliest April 26, 1890 (Wintle) ; central New Bruns- 

 wick, average May 11, earliest May 6, 1906 (Mcintosh); Pictou, 



