52 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
. ». Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa hxmastica (Linn.). ny 
Bivating range.—The eggs of the Hudsonian. godwit are: known 
only from the Anderson River region of northwestern Mackenzie (Mac- 
Farlane), but since Edward A. Preble, of the Biological Survey, found 
the species. common in July and August on the west coast or Hudson 
Bay, probably it breeds also not far north of ‘this region. The breed- 
ing range,is probably. the Barren Grounds from the mouth of the 
Mackenzie to Hudson Bay... st 4 ih 
_ Winter range.—The species winters in Argentina and Chile south 
to. Chiloe Island (Sclater and Salvin) on the west: coast and to the 
Strait. of, Magellan. (Sharpe) and’the Falkland. Islands (Abbott). 
But it is rare in eastern Patagonia south of the Chubut River (Durn- 
ford), which is just opposite. the southern limit on the: western coast. 
Migration range.—The migration route. between the winter and 
summer homes is not known.. In fall migration the species appears 
rarely on the ‘coast of Maine (Boardman) and more commonly in 
Massachusetts (Howe and Allen), Rhode Island, (Sturtevant), and 
Long Island (Dutcher).; Whither the birds go when, they leave Long 
Island is as yet unknown, . On the rest. of the coast of the United 
States the species is known only as a very rare straggler. : One acci- 
dental occurrence in Cuba (Gundlach) is the only. record for the: 
Greater Antilles, and in the Lesser Antilles it is known only from 
the extreme eastern end, on Barbados. (Feilden). and. Trinidad 
(Leotaud). It occurs on the coast of British Guiana (Quelch) and 
in the interior of Brazil (Pelzeln). «+. a 
The species seems not: to be recorded: in spring anywhere on the 
Atlantic\coast between Argentina and Long Island, with the excep-: 
tion of a single pair seen May 8, 1906, near Rehoboth, Del. (Pennock). 
The very few records,on Long Island (Sharpe) and in New England 
(Howe and Allen) during the spring indicate that. at this season it. 
is only a straggler along the Atlantic. It passes in spring migration 
up the Mississippi Valley, entering the United States through Louis- 
ana (Beyer) and Texas (Sharpe) and ° passing 1 north principally along 
the eastern edge of the plains. The migration route between Argen- 
tina and Texas i is ‘unknown, for there is not a single spring | record i in 
the whole distance, and records at. any time in the year are limited, ¥ 
to one on the coast of Peru, November 9, 1883 (MacFarlane); one 
in Cuba, no date specified (Gundlach) ; and very doubtful records | 
for Colombia (Burger) and. Costa Rica (Zeledon). | 
From the above very meager data, it seems probable that the 
Hudsonian godwit has a migration route similar to that of the 
golden plover, with this important difference—that whereas the 
golden plover first goes eastward from its breeding grounds’ to the 
coast of Labrador and crossing the Gulf of St. Lawrence strikes out 
to sea from Nova Scotia, the Hudsonian godwit starts in a south: 
