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Fall migration.—In fall‘ the western ‘willet ‘wanders eastward far 
beyond the breeding range, even to the Atlantic coast, as shown by 
the following records: Chicago, Ill, September 2, 1906 \(Armstong 
and Lawson); Miller, Ind., August 14, 1897 (Woodruff) ; Oberlin, Ohio, 
September 17, 1906 (Jones); Toronto, Ontario, July 20, 1898 (Flem- 
ing); Stony Creek,.Conn., August 15, 1897 (Bishop); Keokuk, Iowa, 
October 27,1896 (Currier). A wanderer’ far north of the breeding 
range was taken at Victoria, British Columbia, August 18, 1898 
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Wandering Tattler. Heteractitis incanus (Gmel:). 
The first information of the breeding range of the wandering 
tattler was obtained in 1904 by one of the parties of the Biological . 
Survey. A ‘downy young was'shot September 5 on Macmillan River 
in east central Yukon (Osgood). July 28, 1906, a pair were seen by 
Charles Sheldon near Mount McKinley, south central Alaska, under 
conditions that left no doubt that’ they were breeding in the imme- 
diate vicinity. It is not probable that the species breeds anywhere 
south of Alaska, and yet it occurs in the Hawaiian Islands every 
month of the year (Henshaw); on the coast of California every 
month from March to October (Bryant), and has been taken July 2, 
1900, on the island of Guam; and July 17, 1904, on the Philippine 
Islands (specimens in the United States National Museum). The 
species ranges north to Nulato, Alaska (Dall), where it is said by the 
natives to breed, and occurs about as far north on the Asiatic side 
of Bering Sea to Plover Bay (Bean), where it was taken in fall migra- 
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The wandering tattler winters in southern California, the Galapagos 
(Sharpe), the Hawaiian Islands (Henshaw), and throughout Oceania 
to the New Hebrides. In migration it occurs on the Commander’ 
Islands, along the whole western coast of North America from Mexico 
to Alaska, and has. occurred inland, accidentally at Crater Lake, 
Oreg. (Bendire), and on the eastern shore of' James Bay (Bell). 
Spring migration begins in March, bringing the birds to the coast 
of California (Grinnell) by the latter part of the month. The Aleu- 
tian Islands are reached the middle of May (Nelson), and the most 
northern' part of the range by: the latter part of the month (Dall). 
On the coast of central California, nearly 2,000' miles south of the 
breeding grounds, the first fall migrants appear with great regularity 
within a few days of the middle of July, and are common a few days 
later (Loomis). :, At about. the same time, the birds return from the 
interior of Alaska to the coast, and are common around Bering Sea: 
for the next, two months (Nelson). The Jast leave the northern part. 
of the range about the middle of September (Nelson) and desert the, 
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