NORTHERN PHALAROPE.: 17 
The northern phalarope is a regular though not common migrant 
throughout the interior ofthe United States, and has been recorded 
from almost every State north of the Ohio River and south to Kansas 
(Goss) and New Mexico (Henry): There is no record as yet for any 
of the Gulf States. The species is a common migrant on the Pacific 
coast of America, and is sometimes abundant south to the coast of 
central California, Farther south it is less common, though recorded 
from San Jose, Lower California, in the fall (Brewster), and from 
the west coast of Mexico in the spring (Nelson). The few noted at 
Duenas, Guatemala, in August and September (Salvin), and those 
at Desamparados, Costa Rica (Salvin and Godman), complete the 
record for Central America. 
Spring migration. —The. northern phalarope was noted in the 
Bermudas March 21-22, 1848 (Hurdis), and March 8, 1852 (Reid). 
This is almost two months earlier than the species usually appears 
on the New England and Long, Island coasts. Six years’ observa- 
tions at Montauk Point Light gives May 13 as the mean date of spring 
arrival—earliest, April 30, 1898 (Scott). Almost all the dates for 
the coast of Massachusetts are in May. The species arrives at the 
northern limit of its range about. the. middle of June. Some late 
records on the Atlantic coast are: Near Charleston, S. C., June 3, 
1903 (Wayne); Montauk Point, New York, June 3, 1804 (Scott); 
on the coast of Maine to the middle of June (Job). 
The northern phalarope was common at Sihuatanejo, on the 
western coast of Mexico, April 9, 1903 (Nelson); it usually appears 
on the coast of California in ae May, reaches the mouth of the 
Yukon the middle of May, and was noted in the Kowak Valley, 
Alaska, May 22, 1899 (Grinnell); Point Barrow, June 11, 1883 
(Murdoch), and June 15, 1898 (Stone); Walker Bay, Prince ‘Albert 
Land, June 15, 1852. (Greely). Individuals are occasionally seen 
on the California coast in summer, but these are nonbreeders. 
Eggs have been taken near Rupert House, Ontario, June 18, 1860 
(Drexler); near Fort Anderson, June 16, 1862 (MacFarlane); at 
Kiska Island, Aleutians, June 30, 1873 (Dall); St. Michael, Alaska, 
June 1-20 (Nelson); and Kowak Valley, Alaska, June 28, 1898 
(Grinnell). 
Fall migration. —Returning migrants appear on the coast of central 
California less than six weeks after the northbound flocks disappear, 
and are common by the end of July. The great flocks pass during 
August, are less common in September, and cease in October—latest, 
Monterey, October 24, 1896 (Loomis). The average date of fall arrival 
at, Montauk Point, Ne ew York, is August 28—earliest, August 5, 1893, 
latest, October 22, 1888 (Scott). The last one noted at Point Barrow 
was seen August 17, 1898 (Stone), and the species usually disappears 
from the mouth of the Yukon the last of September. 
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