68 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Winter range.—It winters: in Argentina’ and Uruguay, south at 
least to Buenos Aires (Durnford) and Montevideo (Gould). 
Migration range.—Many thousand miles separate the summer and 
winter homes of the species, and the migration route between these 
widely separated regions seems to be somewhat different from that 
of any other species. The main body of migrants follows the Barren 
Grounds to the shores of Hudson Bay, thence almost due south across 
the Mississippi Valley to the coast of’ Texas and through Central 
America to northwestern South America and diagonally across the 
interior of South America to Argentina. a : 
The buff-breasted sandpiper is a rare fall migrant on the Atlantic 
coast: Henley Harbor, Labrador, August 20, 1860 (Coues); Port 
Burwell, Ungava, September 28, 1884 (Bell); Quebec, three records, 
August 28 (Merriam) to September (Trowbridge); Cape Elizabeth, 
Me., September 13, 1887 (Knight); Scarboro, Me., September 5; 1907 
(Norton); several records on the coast of New England and on Long 
Island, the latest of which is September 11, 1904, on Long Island 
(Braislin). . South of Long Island there are no recent records, and 
most of the older ones are open to suspicion. The species was seen 
once in April in ‘Cuba (Gundlach), twice in the fall on Barbados 
(Feilden), and a record for the island of Trinidad (Leotaud) is some- 
what doubtful. It is practically. unknown in spring on the Atlantic 
coast of the United States. It has been taken at Barr Lake, Colo. 
(Hersey), and on the Pacific coast has been taken at Cape Flattery, 
Wash. (Newberry); in southern British Columbia (Brooks); Sitka 
(Bischoff), St. Michael (Nelson), and Nulato (Dall and Bannister), 
Alaska. . - 
Spring migration.—Migrants appear in the interior of Brazil 
(Pelzeln) and'in Peru (Sclater and Salvin) during March, but there 
are no spring migration data for the whole distance between Peru 
and Texas. In the State of Texas the species was noted April 22, 
1887, in Refugio County (Sennett), and April 23, 1877, at Gainesville 
(Ragsdale). The first. were seen at Fort Chipewyan, May 24, 1901 
(Preble); Fort Simpson, May 29, 1860 (Ross); Yukon delta, May 30, 
1879 (Nelson); St. Michael, May 31, 1880 (Nelson); Point Barrow, 
June 8, 1882 (Murdoch), and June 6, 1883 (Murdoch), 
Eggs were taken on the Barren Grounds near Franklin Bay, June 
26, 1864, and June 28, 1865 (MacFarlane); and at Point’ Barrow, 
June 18, 1883 (Murdoch). . 
Fall migration.—The fall migration of this species and of most 
other waders begins in July, and so rapidly do the birds move south 
that they have been noted the last of this month in Nebraska (Bruner, 
Wolcott, and Swenk); Gainesville, Tex., August 4, 1883 (Ragsdale); 
San Jose, Costa Rica, September 7, 1890 (Cherrie); and Cienega, 
Colombia, September 12, 1898 (Allen). The southern part of the 
