20 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



Falls, Mont., is April 24 (Williams). They have even been noted at 

 Salt Lake, Utah, as early as March (Baird), and at Ash Meadows, 

 Nev., March 15, 1891 (Fisher). They appeared April 28, 1908, at 

 Okanagan Landing, B. C. (Brooks), May 14, 1892, at Indian Head, 

 Saskatchewan (Macoun), and June 1, 1864, at Fort Resolution, 

 Mackenzie (Preble). 



Eggs have been taken at Santa Ana, Calif., as early as May 3 and 

 as late as July 6 (Grinnell) ; eggs nearly ready to hatch were found at 

 Hawarden, Iowa, June 2, 1900 (Anderson), and at Crane Lake, 

 Saskatchewan, June 9, 1894 (Macoun). 



Fall migration. — The southward movement begins so early that by 

 the last of August the first migrants have reached southern Mexico. 

 Individuals have been seen in Nebraska as late as October 27, 1899 

 (Wolcott), and at Salt Lake, Utah, until a month later. Other late 

 dates are: Cape Elizabeth, Me., November 5, 1878 (Brown); St. 

 Mary Reservoir, Ohio, November 10, 1882 (Dawson); Oberlin, Ohio, 

 November 4, 1907 (Jones); near New Orleans, La., November 12, 

 1889 (Beyer), and Johnsons Bayou, La., November 26, 1882 (speci- 

 men in United States National Museum). 



Black-necked Stilt. Himantopus mexicanus (Mull.). 



Breeding range. — The black-necked stilt is one of the very few 

 shorebirds that breed in the United States and also in the Tropics. 

 The breeding range extends north to Florida (Scott), Louisiana 

 (Beyer), Texas (Merrill), southern Colorado (Henshaw), northern 

 Utah (Allen), and central Oregon (Burns; Preble). More than half 

 a century ago the species nested on Egg Island in Delaware Bay 

 (Turnbull) and as late as 1881 still bred on the coast of South Car- 

 olina (Wayne). At the present time the bird is unknown along the 

 whole Atlantic coast north of Florida, though formerly it has been 

 noted locally to northern New England, and in September, 1880, one 

 was seen at Mace Bay, New Brunswick (Chamberlain) . In the interior 

 of the United States the species is recorded as a straggler north to 

 Ohio (Langdon), Michigan (Gibbs), Wisconsin (Hoy), Iowa (Rich), and 

 Nebraska (Bruner, Wolcott, and Swenk), but is not known to breed east 

 of the Rocky Mountains north of Texas. The southern limit of the 

 breeding range is not yet well known. The species is a tolerably com- 

 mon resident of the entire West Indies and the whole northern coast 

 of South America. It probably breeds south to central Peru and to 

 the Lower Amazon. It breeds on the islands off the coast of Yucatan 

 (Salvin), and probably on the coast of northeastern Mexico, and 

 south to southern New Mexico (Carlsbad; Bailey) and southern Cali- 

 fornia (Santa Ana; Grinnell). The early explorers of the West 

 recorded it north to the Columbia River, but there are no definite 

 breeding records so far north. 



Winter range. — A few winter in southern Florida (Myers; Scott) 

 and on the coasts of Louisiana (Beyer) and Texas (Corpus Christi; 



