"4 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Fall migration.—On the western shore of Hudson Bay near York 
Factory in 1900 the species was seen July 19, and was tolerably 
common in that region nearly to the first of September (Preble); the 
earliest date at Toronto, Ontario, is July 4, 1904 (Fleming). The 
average date of arrival at Nantucket, Mass., is July 20, earliest July 
13 (Mackay); earliest at Long Beach, N. J., July 9, 1879. (Stone); 
Pea and Bodie Island, North Carolina, July 22, 1904 (Bishop); 
Bermudas, August 14 (Reid); Barbuda, West Tndiea, ‘August 12, 1877 
(Ober). Two specimens. were taken July 3, 1907, at Coronado de 
Terraba, Costa Rica (Carriker), but these may have ‘been nenbesaiers 
that had not made a northern journey. 
The individuals breeding in Alaska pass south along the Pacific 
coast, and have been noted at the Farallons, California, July 16, 1896 
(Loomis); Los Coronados Islands, Lower California, August 7, 1902 
(Grinnell and Daggett); Chimbote, Peru, August 2-5, 1883 (MacPar 
lane); and by August 18, at Arauce, Chile (Sharpe). 
The Hudsonian curlew has been noted at St. Michael, ee as 
late as September 2, 1899 (Bishop); Morro Bay, California, November, 
1891 (Nelson); Great Bear Lake, August 30,1903 (Preble) ; near Cape 
Churchill, Hudson Bay, August 24, 1900 (Preble); Henley Harbor, 
Ungava, August 27, 1860 (Coues). Near Newport, R. I., a gunner 
secured 30 birds in eight years on dates ranging from August 26, 1867, 
to October, 2,,.1874 (Sturtevant). Barbuda, West: Indies, November 
12, 1903 (specimen in United States National ou 
Eskimo Curlew. Numenius borealis (Forst. is 
Breeding range.—The principal summer home of the Eskimo curlew 
was on the barren grounds of Mackenzie, from near the Arctic coast - 
(MacFarlane) south to Point Lake (Richardson). Thencé’ a few 
ranged west as far as Point Barrow (Murdoch), but’ no nests’seem to 
have been. found west of Mackenzie. 
_ Winter range.—Most of the species wintered in the campos region 
of Argentina (Sclater and Hudson) and Patagonia, south at least to 
the Chubut Valley (Durnford). It has been taken once on the Falk- 
land Islands (Abbott). It was rare in Chile, south to Chiloe (Philip pi). 
At present there are no data to determine the northern limit i in winter, 
but probably few if any wintered much north of Buenos, ‘Aires, 
Migration route.—The-curlew left the Barren Grounds in the fall 
and went southeast to Labrador (Coues), where they gorged them- 
selves for several weeks and became extremely fat. Then they 
passed across the Gulf of St. Lawrence and struck out to sea heading 
for the Lesser Antilles, nearly 2,000 “miles distant. Some flocks 
stopped for a few days at the Bermutias (Jardine), but if the weather 
was fair the larger number passed on, flying both day and night, and 
did not land during the whole trip... When storms interfered, the 
birds were sometimes driven out of their course and appeared in 
