14 NORTH AMERICAN: SHOREBIRDS. 
The data on 'the breeding.and, wintering of the shorebirds has 
been collated from all available printed. sources, from the manuscript 
reports of the field naturalists.of the Biological Survey, and from the 
‘specimens. and, catalogues of the United’ States National Museum. 
The dates of migration have been obtained principally from: the 
migration schedules sent in by the several hundred observers in 
the United States and. Canada, who for a quarter : of a century 
have contributed to. the Biological Survey spring and fall reports of 
their observations. It is a pleasure to testify: to the earnest and con- 
scientious efforts these observers have put forth for the solving of 
some of. the phases of Nature’s great migration problem and to 
return thanks to, them for their, painstaking labors. 
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NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Red Phalarope. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.). 
Breeding range.—The summer home 'of the red phalarope is 
circumpolar, and the species is known at this season from the whole 
northern coast and islands of America, Europe, and Asia, except a 
few regions, the most notable of which is the eastern coast.of Green- 
land. It has been ‘known to breed south to St. Michael, Alaska, 
63° N. (Nelson); to Cape Eskimo, west coast of Hudson Bay, 61° N. 
(Preble); Hudson Strait, 62° N. (Durner); and, to the south end of 
Greenland, 60° N. (Schalow). It has been noted north to 83° N., 
north of Spitzbergen (Sverdrup); 82° 30’ N. on Ellesmere Island 
(Feilden) ;, Melville Island, 74°30’ N.. (Parry); and Point Barrow, 
71° N. (Murdoch). It is especially abundant as a breeder along the 
coast and islands of Arctic America. 
Winter range.—The Old World winter home of the species extends 
south to Morocco, India, China, and New Zealand. Knowledge of 
the winter range in the Western Hemisphere is very meager. The 
species has been noted in the extreme southern parts of South 
America on the Falkland Islands (Schalow), and Juan Fernandez 
(Sharpe) ; in November, when it may have been migrating, at 
Coquimbo, northern Chile (Salvin) ; on December 5 in Chile, locality 
not designated (Sharpe) ; specimens are recorded from Argentina and 
Colombia (Sharpe), without date or locality. The lack of records for 
this species is remarkable. There seem to be no records whatever for 
the West Indies nor for the whole of middle America, except the 
western coast of Lower California, where the species is ordinarily a 
rare spring and fall migrant, but Gecastonally3 is seen in large flocks 
(Kaeding). Stragglers have been noted at Mount Pleasant, S. C., 
December 4, 1900 (Wayne); on the coast of northern Lower Call- 
fornia, February 21 (Belding); and © océasionally in winter at San 
Diego, Calif. (McGregor). 
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