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Bay birds turn eastward: to the Atlantic coast. An early arrival 
appeared on Long Island, New York, July 17, 1897 (Worthington), 
but the usual time of arrival is a month or more later; Hayward, 
Calif., August 3, 1889 (Emerson); Point de Monts, Quebec, August 
_ 28, 1883 (Merriam); Plymouth, Mass., September 17, 1852 (Browne); 
Erie, Pa., September 21, 1875 (Sennett) ; Washington, D. C., Sep- 
fenaber 25, 1894 (Hasbrouck): 
The last deserted the breeding grounds at Poin’ Barrow, Alaska, 
September 7, 1882 (Murdoch); September 4, 1897 (Stone). ‘The 
last have been noted at St. George Island, Alaska, October 3, 1899 
(Bishop); Bering Island, October 25, 1884 (Grebnitsky); Chicago, 
Ill., November 3, 1906, (Ferry); Oberlin, Ohio, October 27, 1906 
(ones : St. Clair Flats, Michigan, Novambar- 20, 1904 (Blain); Otta- 
wa, ‘Ontario, average October 4, latest October 29, 1889 (White); 
Portland, Me., November 11, 1906 °(EKastman); Barnstable, Mass., 
Decembat 23, ‘1903 (Howe); Comox, British Columbia, Dacenther 5, 
1903 (Brooks). 
‘Curlew Sandpiper. ‘Erolia ferruginea (Brinn.). 
The curlew sandpiper breeds only in the Eastern Hemisphere, but 
wanders not infrequently to the Atlantic coast of North America. 
The only eggs ‘so far known were taken July 3, 1897, in the delta of 
the Yenisei River, Siberia (Newton), and June 24—July 6, 1900, on 
the northwestern coast’ of the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia (Dresser). 
It is probable that all Greenland records for this species are erro- 
neous, and that the only reliable record in Arctic America is that of 
the single individual taken’ June 8, 1883, at Point Barrow, Alaska 
(Murdoch). On’ the Atlantic coast of Donietien it has been recorded 
about twenty times ‘from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Jones), to Cape May, 
N. J. (Abbott). A few dates are in May, but. the larger part are in 
the fall from August to October. One specimen was taken about 
1886 in the interior at Toronto, Ont. (Fleming). The species | has 
been recorded from'Grenada Island, West Indies (Cory), and there 
is a specimen in the British Museum said to have been taken in eastern 
Patagonia. | . 
In winter the curlew sandpiper ranges south to southern Africa, 
India, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia. During migration it 
has been noted in the Philippines and. China, and west to Great 
Britain. 
Spoon-bill Sandpiper, ~ Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (Linn.). 
The : ‘spoon-bill sandpiper inhabits the Eastern ‘Hemisphere and 
ranges insummer to northeastern Siberia. It migrates through Japan 
and China and winters as far south as Burma and India. One was 
taken in 1849,on the Choris ‘Peninsula of, Alaska—the only record for 
the Western. Hemisphere. ; 
