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" Spring birds from the Upper Yukon have many black feathers with irregular whitish 

 borders scattered over the back, mixed with the ordinary winter dress. The young bird from 

 Saint Michael's has the same pattern of coloration as the adult, but the colors are dull. There 

 is no record of this species from the Asiatic shore nor from the Arctic coast of Alaska." 



According to Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway (Water-Birds of N. America i. p. 274), 

 " Mr. J. A. Allen found it in considerable numbers about the lagoons of Eastern Kansas in the 

 earlier part of May, and afterwards in August ; he also saw it at Lake Bass in Colorado, and a 

 few were found in September in the valley of Great Salt Lake. It was not noticed by 

 Mr. Bidgway in Utah or Nevada, but it has been found very abundant in August and September 

 throughout Dakota and Montana, where it was invariably seen associating with the melanoleuca. 

 Both species are there the most unsuspecting of the Waders, so that they may be approached 

 without the slightest difficulty. Mr. L. Belding, in the winter of 1878-1879, procured a 

 specimen on the coast of California. In the valley of the Mississippi this species is a regular 

 migrant both in the spring and in the fall. It is much more abundant in its autumnal 

 movement, and much more common than the melanoleuca, coming later and departing earlier 

 than that species. None remain to breed near Lake Koshkonong, where in the fall they again 

 become very abundant." It is, they acid, very generally distributed throughout the United States, 

 but it appears to be more abundant on the eastern side of the territory, and is a regular and 

 common migrant on the Atlantic coast. I met with it on the coast of New Brunswick during 

 migration. My friend, Mr. George A. Boardman, states that he observed it near Calais, Maine, in 

 the spring and autumn, and it is recorded from almost all parts of the coast down to Florida, 

 where, however, according to Mr. Scott, it was a rather rare migrant about Tarpon Springs, but 

 he did not meet with it in the winter. I met with it in Texas and Mexico, but only shot one 

 during the two months I was at Matamoras. At San Antonio, Texas, in the spring of 1864, I 

 noticed them oftener than I did at Matamoras, and shot several during April and early in May 

 and saw several on Galveston Island early in June. It winters in Mexico and Central and South 

 America. Mr. O. Salvin (Ibis, 1859, p. 229) met with it at Duehas, in Guatemala, in April. 

 Mr. Barrows (Auk, 1884, p. 315) records it from the Lower Uruguay, and says that none were 

 seen at Concepcion during May, June, and July, but they were numerous at Azul in January. 

 Mr. Durnford also (Ibis, 1877, p. 199) records it from Buenos Ayres, where, curiously enough, 

 he says it is resident, but in the winter receives a considerable accession to its numbers. It was, 

 he adds, common at Baradero in April. He also (Ibis, 1877, p. 43) found it common in the 

 Chuput valley, Batagonia, and adds (Ibis, 1878, p. 404) that it was seen occasionally on the 

 Sengel. It occurs on passage on almost all the West India Islands. Messrs. A. & E. Newton 

 met with it (Ibis, 1859, p. 257), but not plentifully, in spring and autumn on the island of 

 St. Croix, but do not think that it remains in the island through the winter; Leotaud (Ois. 

 Trinidad, p. 453) found it in Trinidad from August to October; Gosse records it from Jamaica; 

 Gundlach from Cuba and Porto Bico, where it occurs in large flocks; Wedderburn from 

 Bermuda; and Col. H. W. Feilden says (Ibis, 1889, p. 496) that in the island of Barbados the 

 Yellowshanks "arrives in flocks about the 15th of July, though stragglers put in an earlier 

 appearance. I shot an example on the 4th of July at Graeme-Hall swamp. The passage lasts 

 till the middle of September, only odd birds appearing after that date. The Yellowshanks is 



