‘WOODCOCK. =’ 91 
‘Rhoads), and from southern Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Nelson) and south- 
ern Lower California (La Paz; Ridgway), south throughout Central 
America and the West Indies to:central Peru.\(Santa Lucia; Tacza- 
nowski) and the mouth of the Amazon (Sclater and Salvin). The 
species winters on the Galapagos: Islands; and ea) a few remain 
to breed (Rothschild. and Hartert). | 
Spring migration.—The slight ora mieinione movements of 
this species occur principally in April. Some dates of arrival are: 
Titusville, Fla., March 11, 1905 (Worthington); Sioux City, Iowa, 
April 20, 1902 (Rich) ; Omaha, Nebr., April 20, 1895 (Bruner, Wolcott, | 
and Swenk); Escondido, Calif., April 13, 1896 , April 15, 1897 (Hatch); 
Fresno County, Calif. , April 5, 1890 (Eaton); ‘Stockton, Calif: » April 
13, 1878 (Belding). 
Eges have been taken in southern California from early May to 
August, and at Salt Lake, Utah, May 22 (Ridgway). At Fort Gar- 
land, Colo., the young were just hatched June 21, 1873 (Henshaw). 
Fall migration. —The latest dates in Nebraska are in early October, 
and the species has been noted at Riverdale, walt , as late as Novem- 
ber 19, 1891 (Eaton). 
European Woodcock. Scolopaz | rusticola Linn. 
The European woodcock is widely distributed in Europe and west- 
ern Asia. It breeds in northern’ Europe and northern Asia from 
beyond the ‘Arctic Circle south to England, Silesia, the Alps, the 
Himalayas, and the mountains of Japan; also on the Azores, Madeira 
and Canary islands. It winters from the British Islands, southern 
Europe and China, to northern Africa, India, and Formosa; it wanders 
occasionally to eastern North America, eid has occurred in Loudoun 
County, Va., in 1873 (Coues) ; Chester County, Pa., the end of Novem- 
ber, 1886 Gtonel | one was taken near Shrewsbury, N. J., December 
6, 1859 (Lawrence) ; one, September, 1889, somewhere in New Jersey 
cw arren); one, probably of this species, near Newport, R. I. Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway) ; ; one at Chambly, Quebec, November 11, 1882 
(Wintle) ; and one at St. John, Newfoundland, January 9, 1862 
(Sclater). 
Woodcock. Philohela minor (Gmel. ). 
Breeding ranige-—The woodcock breeds locally throughout most of 
its range in the United States, at least south to Jacksonville, Fla. 
(Brewster), the coast of Louisiana (Beyer), and to Neosho Falls, i in 
southern Katisas (Goss). Tt will’ probably be found breeding in some 
of the bottomlands of eastern Oklahoma. The breeding range extends 
northward to Pictou, Nova Scotia (McKinlay); Prince Edward Island 
(Dwight); Chatham, New Brunswick (Baxter); the city of Quebec 
(Dionne); Bracebridge, Ontario (Macoun); the northern peninsula 
of Michigan, at Keweenaw Point (Kneeland); extreme. northeastern 
Minnesota, at Elbow Lake (Roberts and Benner); and to Winnipeg, 
