276 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



often snuggle down to rest and bask in the sunshine. While 

 this is largely a bird of the sea-coast with us, it is found also 

 not rarely in the interior. 



Notwithstanding various statements regarding the breeding 

 grounds of these birds, I know of no definite authentic record 

 of eggs found except that recorded by MacFarlane near the 

 coast of Franklin Bay and on the barren grounds in that 

 region. Prof. W. W. Cooke believes that during the breed- 

 ing season the species is crowded into the belt of tundra 

 extending from near the mouth of the Mackenzie east to the 

 southern extremity of BaflBn Land. From this region the 

 southeasterly summer and fall migration brings it down 

 through the Hudson Bay country, Ungava and Labrador 

 directly to the Atlantic coast of New England. In July and 

 August it traverses almost the entire length of the Atlantic 

 coast of both continents, as it has been taken at Cape Horn on 

 September 9, but it is sometimes taken in Massachusetts 

 after September 15. As this species appears to be very rare 

 in the Carolinas in fall, it must pass out to sea, and very likely 

 follows a route somewhat similar to that followed by the 

 Eskimo Curlew. In the spring it is a late migrant; remaining 

 in Brazil until May, when it is seen also in South Carolina and 

 Florida. Apparently the larger numbers pass north through 

 the Mississippi valley region and south by the Atlantic coast. 

 The wonderful flight of this species over almost the entire 

 length of the western continents has not yet been fully traced 

 and mapped. 



