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last ones noted were: Depot Point, Ellesmere Island, latitude 82° 

 45' N., September 11, 1875 (Feilden); Point Barrow, Alaska, August 



26, 1882 (Murdoch), and September 4, 1897 (Stone); Nushagak, 

 Alaska, September 21, 1902 (Osgood). A specimen is reported 

 taken September 8, 1904, at Pacific Beach, Calif. (Bishop), and one 

 September 8, 1892, on Monomoy Island, Massachusetts (Bisi^op). 



Kuddy Turnstone. Arenariainterpresmorinella (Linn.). 



Breeding range. — Undoubted breeduig records of the ruddy turn- 

 stone are very rare. It nested oh the Lower Anderson and Franklin 

 Bay (MacFarlane), and specimens of the breeding birds have been 

 identified as morinella. Some form of the tumstone, probably 

 morinella, breeds on Melville Island (Sabine), on Melville Peninsula 

 (Parry), and at Bellot Strait (Walker), but its identity has yet to be 

 determined by the examination of specimens. 



Winter rav,ge. — The turnstone of the Western Hemisphere ranges 

 south in winter to central Chile — at least to Talcahuano (Sharpe) 

 and probably to Valdivia (Boeck) — and to Sao PaUlo in Brazil 

 (Iherihg). It winters on the coasts of northern South America, in 

 the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, and north to the coast of 

 South Carolina CCoues), Louisiana (Beyer), Texas (Merrill), and in 

 California at least as far north as San Francisco (Mailliard). 



Spring migration. — The tumstone, notwithstanding it winters so 

 far north, is a late migrant. The probable explanation is that its 

 breeding grounds in the far north are not ready for occupancy until 

 nearly midsummer. It was seen May 7, 1906, on Pea and Bodie 

 islands. North Carolina (Bishop). The average date of arrival on 

 Long Island, New York, is May 16, earliest May 12, 1897 (Scott); 

 eastern Massachusetts, May 5, earUest May 1, 1892 (Mackay); Erie, 

 Pa., May 24, 1893 (Todd). It appears to be rare in spring north of 

 Maine on the Atlantic coast. 



The species is rare in the interior of the United States, but has been 

 noted a few times in nearly every State east of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Some dates of arrival are : Starke County, Ind., May 20, 1888 (Butler) ; 

 Oberlin, Ohio, May 16, 1901 (Jones); southern Ontario, average May 



27, earliest May 24, 1900 (Nash); Leech Lake, Minn., May 24, 1903 

 (Currier); Indian Head, Saskatchewan, May 15, 1892 (Macoun); 

 Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, May 25, 1901 (Preble); Fort Resolution, 

 Mackenzie, June 1, 1860 (Kennicott); Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, 

 May 29, 1904 (Preble); Fort Anderson, Mackenzie, June 10, 1864 

 (MacFarlane); Winter Island, Melville Peninsula, June 14, 1822 

 (Richardson). 



It was found off the coast of Venezuela, July 2, 1892 (Hartert), 

 July 7, 1895 (Robinson), and early July, 1901- (Clark). A few are 

 said to remain all summer on Carriacou Island, West Indies (Wells). 

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