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Mackenzie, May 28, 1865 (MacFarlane) ; Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 June 19, 1882 (Murdoch). 



Eggs were taken at St. Michael, Alaska, May 23, 1880 (Nelson); 

 near Fort Anderson, Mackenzie, June 21, 1864, and June 15, 1865 

 (MacFarlane) ; incubating birds were taken at Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 June 28, 1883 (Murdoch). 



Fall migration. — Southward-bound migrants were abundant July 

 31, 1900, on the west shore of Hudson Bay near Fort Churchill 

 (Preble), and this must have been nearly the last of the migration, 

 for none were seen after three days later. By this date the earliest 

 migrants were already far south, as shown by the following dates of 

 arrival: Fort Kenai, Alaska, July 20, 1869 (Osgood); Tulare Lake, 

 Calif., July 8, 1907 (Goldman); Hay Creek, Saskatchewan, July 3, 

 1906 (Bent); Denver, Colo., July 24, 1873 (Henshaw); Long Island, 

 New York, July 23, 1884 (Dutcher); Pea and Bodie islands, North 

 Carolina, July 7, 1904 (Bishop); San Mateo, Oaxaca, August 12, 

 1869 (specimen in United States National Museum). 



The last were seen at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 17, 1882 

 (Murdoch), and August 26, 1897 (Stone); Chilliwack, British Colum- 

 bia, October 29, 1888 (Brooks); Hutton Lake, Wyoming, October 14, 

 1899 (Knight); Mimbres, Ariz., October 22, 1873 (Henshaw); Souris 

 River, North Dakota, October 1, 1873 (Coues); Lincoln, Nebr., 

 October 20, 1900 (Wolcott) ; Long Island, New York, October 15, 

 1884 (Lawrence). 



Stilt Sandpiper. Micropalama himantopus (Bonap .) . 



Breeding range. — Information concerning the nesting of the stilt 

 sandpiper is very meager. Several sets of eggs and some young 

 birds were taken at Franklin Bay on the Arctic coast of Mackenzie 

 and one nest was found at Rendezvous Lake, a few miles back from 

 the coast (MacFarlane). A Biological Survey party found young of 

 the year (probably migrants) July 19, 1900, near York Factory, 

 Keewatin, and noted old birds August 12 near Cape Eskimo (Preble). 

 The young were probably hatched somewhere on the Barren Grounds 

 north of York Factory. The record from these regions seems to be 

 the only data so far obtained bearing on the summer home of the 

 species. It is probably safe to say that the breeding range extends 

 along the Arctic coast and the adjoining tundras from near the mouth 

 of the Mackenzie to the tree limit on the western shores of Hudson 

 Bay. 



Winter range. — If the winter home is to be determined solely by 

 specimens noted or taken in winter, then it must be said that the 

 winter home of the stilt sandpiper is unknown; for there seem to be 

 only two records of the species anywhere for the months of November, 

 December, and January. One of these is in Mexico (Ferrari-Perez) 

 and the other in Texas (Sennett), and probably both were accidental 



