28 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
of the last seen are: Henley Harbor, Ungava, August: 21, 1860 
(Coues); Montreal; Canada, September 27, 1892 (Wintle); Toronto, : 
Ontario, September 15, 1889 (Fleming). 
Long-billed Dowitcher. Macrorhamphus griseus scolopaceus (Say). 
Breeding range.—The long-billed dowitcher was found as a fairly 
common breeder in the Anderson River region, Mackenzie (Mac- 
Farlane), and breeds thence west along the Arctic coast to Point 
Barrow, Alaska (Murdoch), though not commonly. It is an abun- 
dant bresdar at the mouth of the Yukon and on the shores of N orton 
Sound (Nelson). The species is known from, the northern coast of 
eastern Siberia (Palmen), but as yet has not been found there breeding. 
Winter range.—The principal winter home seems to be the shores 
of the Gulf of Mexico; the species is common as far east as the Gulf 
coast of Florida (Scott), and a few pass on to Cuba (Lawrence). It 
is common in Mexico and Guatemala, has been recorded as far south 
as Costa Rica (Frantzius), and it is probably this form that occurs 
in Panama: (Lawrence). 
Some form of the dowitcher occurs on the coast of Ecuador (Sal- 
vadori and Festa) and in Peru as far south as Tumbez (Taczanow: ski), 
but whether the eastern or western form has not yet been ascertained. 
Migration range. —rThere is a decided easterly fall migration which 
brings quite a number of long-billed dowitchers to the Atlantic coast 
of the United States. They are fairly common from Long Island 
southward, and a few have been taken on the coasts of Rhode Island 
(Howe and Sturtevant) and Massachusetts (Brewer) ; and one, 
August 12, 1891, at Hamilton, Ontario (Fleming). This is the form 
common in the Mississippi Valley and it is also more common than 
griseus, at least as far east as Ohio. There is one record of its accidental 
occurrence in Japan (specimen in United States National Museum). 
Spring migration —The long-billed dowitcher is only a straggler in 
spring on the Atlantic coast, but has been recorded at Washington, 
D. C., in April, 1884 (Smith and Palmer); Cape May, N. J., May, 
1848 feneoiman’y in United States National Museum); while on Long 
‘Island, New York, a very early individual was seen March 20 (Law- 
rence). The species normally reaches northern Indiana and northern 
Tllinois Tate in April, but one was taken i in 1889 at English Lake, 
Indiana, on the early date of March 11 (Butler). It was enormously 
abundant along the west shores of Lake Michigan in the early days 
of the settlement of the country, but’ of late years has become quite 
rare. Some dates of arrival farther west are: Fort Brown, Tex., 
March 27, 1853 (Cassin); Corpus Christi, Tex., March 24, 1889 
(Sennett); Lawrence, Kans. , April | 19, 1873 (Snow); : Omaha, ‘Nabr,, 
April 28, 1856 (Cassin); Cheyenjie, Wyo., May 3, 1889 (Bond): 
Fort Kenai, Alaska, May 4, 1869 (Osgood); St. Micheel, Alaska, 
May 18, “1877 (specimen in Sennett collection); : Fort Anderson, 
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