44 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
as far south as central Florida (Scott), and has been recorded once in 
the Bahamas (Todd). On the coast of Texas it ranges to the mouth 
of the Rio Grande (Merrill), but is not.:yet known in northeastern 
Mexico. On the Pacific coast it is abundant south to southern Lower 
California (Belding), but seems not to pass farther south. The only 
record south of the region just, outlined is that of a specimen, undoubt- 
edly a straggler, takeh May 23, at Momotomba, Nicaragua (specimen 
in British Museum). During ‘the winter, the species remains north 
to the coasts of North Carolina (Bishop), New Jersey, casually 
(Stone), Louisiana (Beyer), Texas’ (Carroll), and at least-to central 
Washington (Bowles). The Siberian birds of this form winter from 
Japan and China to the Malay Archipelago. 
Spring migration.—Most of the spring movements. occur in May, 
but a few early birds. press northward in April: Long Beach, New 
Jersey, April 17, 1877 (Scott); Long Island, New York, April 3, 
1882 (Chapman); Erie, Pa., April 21, 1900 (Todd). On the Atlantic 
coast north of Massachusetts the species is not so common in spring: 
as in fall, while around the Great Lakes the reverse is the case. The 
main body of the Atlantic coast birds seem to reach. their breeding’ 
grounds by way of the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay. Along this. 
route they are late migrants, reaching southern Ontario on the average 
May 20, earliest May 13, 1905 (Taverner). : 
The Pacific coast birds appeared in coat ae British Columbia 
April 25, 1888 (Brooks), and April 26, 1889 (Brooks); one was seen 
as early as April 2, 1897, at Howean (Cantwell), in the extreme 
southern part of Alaska. Other dates of spring arrival are: Fort 
Kenai, May 16, 1869 (Osgood); Kigulik Mountains, May 17, 1905 
(Anthony); Dawson, Yukon, May. 24, 1899 (Cantwell) Point Bar- 
row, Alaska, May 31, 1882 (Murdoch), May. 29, 1883 (Murdoch), and 
Jana 2, 1898 (Stone), 
None were noted in Lower California after May 10 (Belding), but 
in central Florida they have been recorded as late as June 2, 1886 
(Scott), and in southern Ontario the average date of the last seen 
is June 4, latest June 13, 1891 (Nash). 
Eggs have been taken at the mouth of the Yukon, June 6, 1879 
(Nelson); Cape Prince of Wales, June 27, 1898 (Grinnell) ; end at, 
a4 dds 
Point Barrow, June 22, 1883 (Murdoch). At this last locality the, 
eggs in some seasons must be laid earlier than the above date, for in 
1898 downy young were taken July 6 (Stone). 
Fall migration.—Karly fall migrants were passing south July 19, 
1900, along the west shore of Hudson Bay, near York Factory (Preble), 
and two weeks later they were enormously abundant, showing that 
this is one of the principal routes in fall migration. Sings the s pecies, 
is not common in the Mississippi Valley and is comparatively rare in 
western Ontario in the fall, it is evident that many of these Hudson 
