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others remain as common winter residents on the Atlantic. coast of 
the southeastern United States north to North Carolina (Smithwick) 
and casually even to Massachusetts (Mackay). The species winters 
on the coast of Texas (Merrill) and on the Pacific coast regularly to 
central California (Cooper) and. occasionally to Washington Cl a 
and Suckley). 
. It occurs'in fall migration on the Hawaiian Islands, where it has 
boars taken from September 25 to DEtOier 14 and where a few may 
winter (Henshaw). 
The sanderlings:of the eastern hemisphere winter from the Mediter- , 
ranean and Japan south to southern Africa, the Malay Archipelago, 
and Oceania. 
Migration range.—The sanderling is common on the coasts of the 
world and on the larger inland waters. It is abundant on both coasts 
of North America and common on the Great Lakes. It has been 
recorded in migration from almost every State of the Union, but is 
quite rare in all the district between the Great Lakes and the Pacific 
coast. 
_ Spring migration. —The northward movement begins in March, 
bringing the species the latter part. of this month to the New England 
coast and to the central Mississippi Valley. Further advance is so 
slow that the sanderling is among the later birds to arrive at the 
breeding grounds, which are reached the first week in June. . Some 
dates of spring arrival are: Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, May 29, 1904 
(Preble); Point Barrow, Alaska, latitude 71°, June 2, 1882 (Mur- 
doch), June 6, 1898 (Stone); Prince of Wales Strait, 73°, June 7, 
1851 (Armstrong) ; Bay of Mercy, 74°, June 3, 1852 (Armstrong) ; 
Winter Island, 66°, June 10, 1822 (Lyon); Iglodlik, 69°, June 16, 
1823 (Parry); Grinnell Land, 82° 33’, June 4, 1876 (Feilden) west 
coast of Greenland at 72°, May 29, 1850 (Sutherland) ; at 78°, June 
5, 1854 (Kane); Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 74°, June 4 (Sesbohm). : 
Specimens were taken in Chile in May Golislow): ; in British Honduras 
May 18-20 (Salvin); southern Florida, May 25 (Scott) ; the coast of 
New Jersey, June 13 (Abbott). The species remains regularly on 
the New England coast and about the Great Lakes until the first 
weekinJune. The fact that nonbreeders remain through the summer 
far south of the nesting grounds has probably furnished the basis 
for the reports of the breeding of the species south of the Arctic 
coast. 
The first eggs known to science were taken June 29, 1863, near 
Franklin Bay, Mackenzie (MacFarlane), a locality where the species 
is very rare. The most northern known eggs were taken June 24, 
1876, near the north coast of Grinnell, Land, at latitude 82° 33" 
(Feilden). Eggs were taken in July at Thank God Harbor, Green- 
land (Bessels), and both late June and d carly July on the Taimyr 
Peninsula, Siberia (W: alter). 
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