ESKIMO CURLEW. 45 
considerable numbers on the coast of Massachusetts (Mackay) and 
less often on Long Island (Giraud) and the New Jersey coast (Turn- 
bull). The Eskimo curlew was absent, except as a straggler, from 
the whole coast of the United States south of New Jersey, from the 
Bahamas and from the Greater Antilles. In its southward flight it 
passed through the Lesser Antilles (Feilden) and along the eastern 
portion of Brazil (Pelzeln) to its winter home. Throughout. the 
whole line of its fall migration it. was unknown in spring, at which 
season it was traveling northward some thousands of miles farther 
west over the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. The exact route 
between its winter home and the United States is unknown, for 
along the whole 4,000 miles from Argentina to northern Mexico 
and southern Texas the species has been recorded only twice—once 
‘Costa Rica (Zeledon) and once in Guatemala (Salvin). Its prin- 
cipal migration route in spring was a comparatively narrow belt 
crossing the prairies on both sides of the meridian of 97°. The course 
is well. known from southern Texas (Merrill) to southern South 
Dakota (Agersborg) and thence data are wanting. There seem to be 
no records of the ‘species’ from abouti latitude 44° in the Mississippi 
Valley’ until Great Slave Lake is reached, a thousand milés to the 
northward. 
This curlew is unknown in the Rocky Mountain States or any- 
where on the Pacific slope or coast south of Alaska, and the specimen 
taken April 8, 1892, at Lake Palomas, Chihuahua (specimen in 
United States National Museum), was far out of ‘the usual course of 
the species. The species has been taken a few times in western 
Alaska, south 'to St. Michael (Nelson) and west to the Pribilof Islands 
(Palmer) and Bering Sea (specimen in United States National 
Museum). It has occurred accidentally several times in Europe and 
on the western coast of Greenland, north to Disco Bay. (Winge). 
Spring migration.—The Eskimo curlew arrived in Texas in March—, 
Boerne, March 9, 1880 (Brown); Gainesville, average March 17, 
earliest March 7, 1884 (Ragsdale) ; and reached central Kansas about. 
the middle of April—April 14, 1884 (Kellogg); April 13, 1885 (Kel- 
logg). Most of the records in the central Mississippi Valley are in 
April. One of the latest and most northern is that of Coues, 
who says that he saw them in large flocks the second week in May, 
1873, between Fort Randall and Yankton, S. Dak. Then there is no 
further news of them until they arrived at. Fort Resolution, Mac- 
kenzie, May 27, 1860 (Kennicott); Fort Anderson, May 27, 1865 
(MacFarlane); Point Barrow, May 20, 1882 (Murdoch).. ; 
Eggs were taken at Point Lake, Mackenzie, June 13, 1822 (Richard- 
son), and on the Barren Grounds near Fort Anderson, June 13, 1863, 
June 16, 1864, and June 16, 1865 (MacFarlane). r 
Fall migration.—The Eskimo curlew started so early in August 
that by the middle of the month the old birds reached the eastern 
