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winter range in Argentina is reached early in October (Sclater and 
Hudson). A very early migrant, was taken August 3, at Pebas, 
Peru (Sharpe). Usually the species is rare east of the Mississippi 
River, but several flocks were seen August 16-18, 1874, at Maywood, 
Ill., near Chicago (Fisher). . 
Spotted Sandpiper. Actitis macularia (Linn.). 
Breeding range.—Few shorebirds have so extended a ‘breeding 
range as the spotted sandpiper. It nests north to Newfoundland 
(Reeks), the northernmost part of Ungava (Turner), northern 
Mackenzie (Fort Anderson; MacFarlane), northern Alaska at Fort 
Yukon (Lockhart), and to the Kowak Valley in northwestern Alaska 
(Townsend).’ It breeds south to northern South Carolina (Chester 
County; Loomis), central Alabama (Greensboro; Avery), southern 
Louisiana (New Orleans; Beyer), central Texas (Lacey), southern 
New Mexico (Carlisle; Barrell), central Arizona (San: Francisco 
Mountains; Mearns), and the southern Sierra of: California (Walker 
Pass; Kaeding), and probably on the Colorado River near Needles 
(Hollister). 3 
| Winter range.—The spotted sandpiper ranges south in winter to 
central Peru (La Merced; Berlepsch and Stolzmann), central Bolivia 
(San Francisco; Salvadori), and to southern Brazil (Sao Paulo; 
Ihering). It is not rare in northern South America, and-is tolerably 
common in Central America and Mexico; a few winter in the West 
Indies, and a small number in the eastern United States to the coast 
of Georgia (Helme) and to Port Royal, S. C. (Eaton), and in the 
western United States to southern Arizona (Dwight) and southern 
California (Grinnell). on 7 
Spring migration.—The spotted sandpiper passes north about the 
. middle of the migration season, as shown by the following dates of 
arrival: Northern Florida, average March 19 (Pleas); Raleigh, N.C., 
average April 10,,earliest April 3, 1893 (Brimley); near Asheville, 
N.C., average April 13, earliest April 10, 1891 (Cairns); Washington, 
D.C., average April 22, earliest April 2, 1905 (McAtee) ; near Waynes- 
burg, Pa... average April 13, earliest April 6, 1893 (J acobs) ; Beaver, 
Pa., average April 20, earliest April 2, 1888 (Todd); Renovo, Pa., 
average April 18, earliest April 9, 1904 (Pierce); Erie, Pa.., earliest 
April 18, 1900 (Todd) ; near New York City, average April 26, earliest 
April 15, 1891 (Burhaus); central Connecticut, average April 25, 
earliest April 20, 1901 (Case) ; near Providence, R. I., average May 2, 
earliest April 21, 1905 (Mason); eastern Massachusetts, average 
April 28, earliest April 15, 1893 (Metcalf); Randolph, Vt., average 
May 5, earliest April 28, 1891. (Paine) ;' southern New Hampshire, 
average May 4, earliest April 28, 1905 (Perkins) ; southwestern Maine, 
average May 1, earliest April 14, 1904. (Norton) ; Montreal, Canada, 
May 13, earliest April 26, 1890 (Wintle) ; central New Bruns- 
average : 
g erage May 11, earliest May 5, 1906 (McIntosh); Pictou, 
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