20 : NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Falls, Mont., is April 24 (Willianis).. They have even been noted at 
Salt Lake, Utah, as early as March (Baird), and at Ash Meadows, 
Nev., March 15, 1891 (Fisher). They appeared April’ 28, 1908, at 
Okanagan Landing, B. C. (Brooks), May 14, 1892, at Indian Head, 
Saskatchewan (Macoun), and June 1, 1864, at Fort Resolution, 
Mackenzie (Preble). ! 
Eggs have been taken at Santa. Ana, Calif., as early as May 3 and 
as late as July:6 (Grinnell); eggs nearly ready to hatch were found at 
Hawarden, Jowa,; June 2, 1900 (Anderson), and at: Crane Lake, 
Saskatchewan, June 9, 1894 (Macoun). 
Fall migration. —The southward, movement bapias: so sual that by 
the last:of August the first’ migrants have reached southern Mexico. 
Individuals have been seen in. Nebraska as late as October 27, 1899 
(Wolcott), and at Salt Lake, Utah,-until a month later. Other late: 
dates are: Cape Elizabeth,-Me., November 5, 1878 (Brown); St. 
Mary Reservoir, Ohio, November 10, 1882 (Dawson); Oberlin, Ohio, 
November 4, 1907 (Jones); near New Orleans,  La., Nowanber 12, 
1889 (Beyer), and Johnsons Bayou, La., November 26, 1882 pee 
men in United States National Museum). 
Black-necked Stilt. Himantopus mexicanus (Mill.). 
Breeding range.—The black-necked stilt is one of the very. few, 
shorebirds that breed in the United States and also in the Tropics. 
The. breeding range extends north to Florida (Scott), Louisiana 
(Beyer), Texas (Merrill), southern Colorado (Henshaw), northern. 
Utah (Allen), and central Oregon (Burns; Preble). More than half 
a century ago the species nested on Egg Island in Delaware Bay 
(Turnbull) and as late as 1881 still bred on the coast of South Car- 
olina (Wayne). At the present time the bird is unknown along the 
whole Atlantic coast north of Florida, though formerly it has been 
noted locally to northern. New England, and in September, 1880, one 
was seen,at Mace Bay, New Brunswick (Chamberlain). Inthe interior 
of the United States the species is recorded as a straggler north to 
Ohio (Langdon), Michigan (Gibbs), Wisconsin (Hoy), Iowa (Rich), and. 
Nebraska (Bruner, Wolcott, and Swenk), but is not known to breed east 
of the Rocky Mountains north of Texas. The southern limit of the 
breeding range is not yet well known. The species is a tolerably com- 
mon resident of the entire West Indies and the whole northern coast 
of South America. It probably breeds south to central Peru and to 
the Lower Amazon. It breeds on the islands off the coast of Yucatan 
(Salvin), and probably. on the coast of, northeastern Mexico, and 
south to southern New Mexico (Carlsbad; Bailey) and. southare Cali-. 
fornia (Santa Ana; Grinnell). The early explorers of the West 
recorded it north to the Columbia River, but there’ are no definite 
breeding records so far north. — 5 
Winter range—A few winter in southern Florida. Oipers: Scott). 
and on the coasts of Louisiana (Beyer) and Texas (Corpus Christi; 
