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Rhoads), and from southern Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Nelson) and south- 

 ern Lower California (La Paz; Ridgway), south throughout Central 

 America and the West Indies to central Peru (Santa Lucia; Tacza- 

 nowski) and the mouth of the Amazon (Sclater and Salvin). The 

 species winters on the Galapagos Islands, and possibly a few remain 

 to breed (Rothschild and Hartert). 



Spring migration. — The slight northward migratory movements of 

 this species occur principally in April. Some dates of arrival are: 

 Titus ville, Fla., March 11, 1905 (Worthington) ; Sioux City, Iowa, 

 April 20, 1902 (Rich) ; Omaha, Nebr., April 20, 1895 (Bruner, Wolcott, 

 and Swenk) ; Escondido, Calif., April 13, 1896, April 15, 1897 (Hatch) ; 

 Fresno County, Calif., April 5, 1890 (Eaton); Stockton, Calif., April 

 13, 1878 (Belding). 



Eggs have been taken in southern California from early May to 

 August, and at Salt Lake, Utah, May 22 (Ridgway). At Fort Gar- 

 land, Colo., the young were just hatched June 21, 1873 (Henshaw). 



Fall migration. — The latest dates in Nebraska are in early October, 

 and the species has been noted at Riverdale, Calif., as late as Novem- 

 ber 19, 1891 (Eaton). 



European Woodcock. Scolopax rusticola Linn. 



The European woodcock is widely distributed in Europe and west- 

 ern Asia. It breeds in northern Europe and northern Asia from 

 beyond the Arctic Circle south to England, Silesia, the Alps, the 

 Himalayas, and the mountains of Japan; also on the Azores, Madeira 

 and Canary islands. It winters from the British Islands, southern 

 Europe and China, to northern Africa, India, and Formosa ; it wanders 

 occasionally to eastern North America, and has occurred in Loudoun 

 County, Va., in 1873 (Coues) ; Chester County, Pa., the end of Novem- 

 ber, 1886 (Stone); one was taken near Shrewsbury, N. J., December 

 6, 1859 (Lawrence); one, September, 1889, somewhere in New Jersey 

 (Warren) ; one, probably of this species, near Newport, R. I. (Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway); one at Chambly, Quebec, November 11, 1882 

 (Wintle); and one at St. John, Newfoundland, January 9, 1862 

 (Sclater). 



Woodcock. Philohela minor (Gmel. ) . 

 Breeding range. — The woodcock breeds locally throughout most of 

 its range in the United States, at least south to Jacksonville, Fla. 

 (Brewster), the coast of Louisiana (Beyer), and to Neosho Falls, in 

 southern Kansas (Goss). It will probably be found breeding in some 

 of the bottomlands of eastern Oklahoma. The breeding range extends 

 northward to Pictou, Nova Scotia (McKinlay) ; Prince Edward Island 

 (Dwight); Chatham, New Brunswick (Baxter); the city of Quebec 

 (Dionne); Bracebridge, Ontario (Macoun); the northern peninsula 

 Of Michigan, at Keweenaw Point (Kneeland); extreme northeastern 

 Minnesota, at Elbow Lake (Roberts and Benner) ; and to Winnipeg, 



