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occurrences. This is one of the rarer sandpipers and the total 

 number of individuals is not great. The species is apparently most 

 common on the Atlantic coast, while a smaller number occur around 

 the Great Lakes and along the eastern edge of the Great Plains in the 

 line leading to the coast of southern Texas. The winter home is 

 therefore to be sought in a southerly direction from the eastern 

 United States. The total records for the whole of Central America 

 are only three, one each in Guatemala (Sclater and Salvin), Nicaragua 

 (Sharpe), and Costa Rica (Zeledon); while the species is recorded as 

 a tolerably common migrant in each of the Greater Antilles and in 

 six islands of the Lesser, but as more common in the Lesser than the 

 Greater Antilles. This latter fact indicates that the principal winter 

 home lies along the Atlantic coast of South America, although records 

 to substantiate this supposition are lacking. The South American 

 records are as follows: Cienega, Colombia, September 13 (Allen); 

 Barbahoyo (Sclater) and Vinces (Salvadori and Festa), Ecuador, 

 each in September; Yquitos, Peru, September and August (Sharpe); 

 Chorillos, Peru (Taczanowski) ; Nauta, Peru, September, October, 

 March, and April (Sclater and Salvin) ; Falls of the Madeira, Bolivia, 

 October (Allen); Ilha Grande, Brazil, August (Sharpe), and Matto 

 Grosso, Brazil, October (Pelzeln). There remain the records of 

 specimens taken in Chile (Sharpe) and at Colonia, Uruguay (Sharpe), 

 without date of capture. Present knowledge is therefore summed up 

 by the statement: It winters in South America, south to Chile and 

 Uruguay. One specimen is recorded as taken at Laguna del Rosario, 

 Mexico, in January (Ferrari-Perez), and one at Corpus Christi, Tex., 

 January 19, 1890 (Sennett). As already stated, it is not probable 

 that the stilt sandpiper winters regularly at either of these localities. 

 One taken February 8, 1892, at Manzanillo, Mexico, by Nelson and 

 Goldman of the Biological Survey, may have been an early spring 

 migrant. 



Spring migration. — The species is rare in spring migration along the 

 Atlantic coast — indeed, the records are so few that it might be called 

 occasional or even accidental. Some of these records are: Jamaica, 

 April (March) ; Cuba, April (Gundlach) ; Sullivan Island, South Caro- 

 lina, May 11, 1885 (Sennett) ; Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, May 19, 

 1898 (Pearson); Long Island, New York, once in May (Chapman), 

 one June 16, 1863 (specimen in United States National Museum) ; 

 Rhode Island, May 9, 1895 (Howe and Sturtevant). The principal 

 route of spring migration seems to be up the Mississippi Valley and 

 particularly along the direct course from the coast of Texas to Great 

 Slave Lake. Most of the dates of arrival are in May. Some of the 

 more northern are: Indian Head, Saskatchewan, May 18, 1892 

 (Macoun); Fort Resolution, Mackenzie, May 19, 1860 (Kennicott); 

 Cheyenne, Wyo., May 25, 1889 (Bond); Fort Chipewyan Alberta, 



