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others remain as common winter residents on the Atlantic coast of 

 the southeastern United States north to North Carolina (Smithwick) 

 and casually even to Massachusetts (Mackay). The species winters 

 on the coast of Texas (Merrill) and on the Pacific coast regularly to 

 central California (Cooper) and occasionally to Washington (Cooper 

 and Suckley) . 



It occurs in fall migration on the Hawaiian Islands, where it has 

 been taken from September 25 to October 14 and where a few may 

 winter (Henshaw). 



The sanderlings of the eastern hemisphere winter from the Mediter- 

 ranean and Japan south to southern Africa, the Malay Archipelago, 

 and Oceania. 



Migration range. — The sanderling is common on the coasts of the 

 world and on the larger inland waters. It is abundant on both coasts 

 of North America and common on the Great Lakes. It has been 

 recorded in migration from almost every State of the Union, but is 

 quite rare in all the district between the Great Lakes and the Pacific 

 coast. 



Spring migration. — The northward movement begins in March, 

 bringing the species the latter part of this month to the New England 

 coast and to the central Mississippi Valley. Further advance is so 

 slow that the sanderling is among the later birds to arrive at the 

 breeding grounds, which are reached the first week in June. Some 

 dates of spring arrival are: Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, May 29, 1904 

 (Preble); Point Barrow, Alaska, latitude 71°, June 2, 1882 (Mur- 

 doch), June 6, 1898 (Stone); Prince of Wales Strait, 73°, June 7, 

 1851 (Armstrong); Bay of Mercy, 74°, June 3, 1852 (Armstrong); 

 Winter Island, 66°, June 10, 1822 (Lyon); Igloolik, 69°, June 16, 

 1823 (Parry); Grinnell Land, 82° 33', June 4, 1876 (Feilden); west 

 coast of Greenland at 72°, May 29, 1850 (Sutherland); at 78°, June 

 5, 1854 (Kane); Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 74°, June 4 (Seebohm). 

 Specimens were taken in Chile in May (Schalow) ; in British Honduras 

 May 18-20 (Salvin); southern Florida, May 25 (Scott); the coast of 

 New Jersey, June 13 (Abbott). The species remains regularly on 

 the New England coast and about the Great Lakes until the first 

 week in June. The fact that nonbreeders remain through the summer 

 far south of the nesting grounds has probably furnished the basis 

 for the reports of the breeding of the species south of the Arctic 

 coast. 



The first eggs known to science were taken June 29, 1863, near 

 Franklin Bay, Mackenzie (MacFarlane) , a locality where the species 

 is very rare. The most northern known eggs were taken June 24, 

 1876, near the north coast of Grinnell Land, at latitude 82° 33' 

 (Feilden). Eggs were taken in July at Thank God Harbor, Green- 

 land (Bessels), and both late June and early July on the Taimyr 

 Peninsula, Siberia (Walter). 

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