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The northern phalarope is a regular though not common migrant 

 throughout the interior of the United States, and has been recorded 

 from almost every State north of the Ohio River and south to Kansas 

 (Goss) and New Mexico (Henry). There is no record as yet for any 

 of the Gulf States. The species is a common migrant on the Pacific 

 coast of America, and is sometimes abundant south to the coast of 

 central California. Farther south it is less common, though recorded 

 from San Jose, Lower California, in the fall (Brewster), and from 

 the west coast of Mexico in the spring (Nelson). The few noted at 

 Duenas, Guatemala, in August and September (Salvin), and those 

 at Desamparados, Costa Rica (Salvin and Godman), complete the 

 record for Central America. 



Spring migration. — The northern phalarope was noted in the 

 Bermudas March 21-22, 1848 (Hurdis), and March 8, 1852 (Reid). 

 This is almost two months earlier than the species usually appears 

 on the New England and Long Island coasts. Six years' observa- 

 tions at Montauk Point Light gives May 13 as the mean date of spring 

 arrival— earliest, April 30, 1898 (Scott). Almost all the dates for 

 the coast of Massachusetts are in May. The species arrives at the 

 northern limit of its range about the middle of June. Some late 

 records on the Atlantic coast are: Near Charleston, S. C, June 3, 

 1903 (Wayne); Montauk Point, New York, June 3, 1894 (Scott); 

 on the coast of Maine to the middle of June (Job). 



The northern phalarope was common at Sihuatanejo, on the 

 western coast of Mexico, April 9, 1903 (Nelson); it usually appears 

 on the coast of California in early May, reaches the mouth of the 

 Yukon the middle of May, and was noted in the Kowak Valley, 

 Alaska, May 22, 1899 (Grinnell); Point Barrow, June 11, 1883 

 (Murdoch), and June 15, 1898 (Stone); Walker Bay, Prince Albert 

 Land, June 15, 1852 (Greely). Individuals are occasionally seen 

 on the California coast in summer, but these are nonbreeders. 



Eggs have been taken near Rupert House, Ontario, June 18, 1860 

 (Drexler); near Fort Anderson, June 16, 1862 (MacFarlane) ; at 

 Kiska Island, Aleutians, June 30, 1873 (Dall); St. Michael, Alaska, 

 June 1-20 (Nelson); and Kowak Valley, Alaska, June 28, 1898 

 (Grinnell). 



Fall migration. — Returning migrants appear on the coast of central 

 California less than six weeks after the northbound flocks disappear, 

 and are common by the end of July. The great flocks pass during 

 August, are less common in September, and cease in October — latest, 

 Monterey, October 24, 1896 (Loomis). The average date of fall arrival 

 at Montauk Point, New York, is August 28 — earliest, August 5, 1893, 

 latest, October 22, 1888 (Scott). The last one noted at Point Barrow 

 was seen August 17, 1898 (Stone), and the species usually disappears 

 from the mouth of the Yukon the last of September. 

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