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directly east and directly west to the ocean coasts. A wanderer was 
taken at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 26, 1897 (Stone), and several 
specimens have been taken on Hudson Bay (Preble). Individuals 
probably sometimes winter in California, as one was taken at Hum- 
boldt Bay, December 7, 1885 - (Townsend), ane at Lake Elsinore, 
Hebriury, 1902 (Nordhof). 
“Spring mgration.—The marbled godwit is ‘among this earlier 
migrants of the shorebirds; it reaches central Illinois in early April 
(Griffin); Heron Lake, Mitmesota, average April 12, earliest April 8, 
1889 (Miller); Lincoln, Nebr., April 18; 1899 (Wolcott); Loveland, 
Colo., average April 27, earliest ‘April 20,'1887 (Smith); Shoalwater 
Bay, Washington, April 13, 1854 (Goapery; southern Manitoba, 
average May 1, ‘earliest April 29, 1901 (Wemyss); southern Sas- 
katchewan, average May 3, earliest’ April 16, 1907 (Lang). Nearly 
all of the few spring records ‘on the Atlantic coast are in May. ~ 
Eggs have been found at Oakland Valley, Iowa, April 20, 1878 
(Rice); Winnebago,' Iowa, May 6, 1871 (Krider); Miner County, 
S. Dak., May 16, 1892 (Patton); Minnewaukan, N. Dak., May 22, 
1892 (Rolfe); in Grant County; Minn., May 24, 1876 Bennattt- sa 
in southern Saskatchewan, May 29, 1905: (Bent). The'birds and their 
young were common June 8, 1820, near the mouth of the Loup Fork’ 
of the Platte; Nebraska (Say). : 
Fall migration.—The ‘return. movement ‘begins in July, since 
migrants have been taken at Ugashik, Alaska, July 16, 1881 (Osgood), 
on the New Jersey coast late in the month (Stone), and on Pea and 
Bodie islands, North Carolina, July 11, 1904 (Bishop). A gunner 
who shot for the market near Newport, R. I., obtained’ only 26 of 
these godwits during eight seasons, the extreme dates ranging from 
August 6, 1873, to Ostobar 2, 1868 (Sturtevant). The latest date 
in Colorado is October 1, 1874 (Henshaw): 
Pacific Godwit. Limosa iapponica ‘baweri Na aum. 
The principal breeding 1 range ‘of the Pacific godwit i isin northeastern 
Siberia, but a few individuals cross to Alaska and breed from Un- 
alaska (Dall) to Kotzebue Sound (Grinnell). After the. breeding 
season some wander northward to Point Barrow (Murdoch). They 
arrive on their breeding grounds early in May (Nelson), and are among 
the earliest of the waders to begin the fall. migration (Nelson). The 
latest one seen at Point Barrow, was August 18 (Murdoch), and 
early in September the last have left North America. The migration 
route passes through the Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, Japan, 
China, and the Philippines. The winter ‘home i is in “Australia, New 
Zealand, the Malay Archipelago, and ‘many of the islands of 
Oceania. The Pacific godwit has been. ‘noted, several times in the 
Hawaiian Islands (Bryan), and a straggler was once taken, at La. 
Paz, Lower California (Belding). 
