50 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



Fall migration. — The sanderling was seen off the coast of Venezuela 

 July 7, 1895 (Robinson), but regular fall migration does not begin 

 until some weeks later, as shown by the following dates of fall arrival, 

 which in each case are considerably earlier than the average: Big 

 Stick Lake, Saskatchewan, July 19, 1906 (Bent); Lincoln, Nebr., 

 August 7, 1900 (Wolcott); Toronto, Ontario, July 16, 1898 (Nash); 

 Newfoundland, August 2, 1887 (Palmer); Erie, Pa., July 27, 1900 

 (Todd); Long Island, New York, July 20, 1900 (Scott); San Mateo, 

 Tehuantepec, August 5, 1869 (Sumichrast) . The last was seen at 

 Point Barrow, August 27, 1897 (Stone); St. Michael, Alaska, Septem- 

 ber 11, 1899 (Bishop); Homer, Alaska, August 29, 1901 (Chapman); 

 Prince of Wales Strait, August 30, 1850 (Armstrong) ; Grinnell Land, 

 about August 31, 1882 (Greely); Prince Edward Island, October 30, 

 1887 (Bain); Montreal, Canada, October 7, 1889 (Wintle); Lincoln, 

 Nebr., October 4, 1898 (Bruner, Wolcott, and Swenk); Ottawa, On- 

 tario, October 22, 1887 (White); Erie, Pa., November 17, 1902 (Todd). 

 Marbled Godwit. Limosafedoa (Linn.). 



Breeding range. — Formerly the marbled godwit was a common 

 breeder in northern Nebraska (Say), in northern Iowa south to about 

 latitude 43° (Preston), and a few undoubtedly nested in Wisconsin, 

 at about the same latitude (Kumlien and Hollister). It is not prob- 

 able that the species now breeds in either State, and the principal 

 summer home at the present time is from northern North Dakota 

 (Rolfe) to the valley of the Saskatchewan (Bent). 



Winter range. — The species passes south in winter to southern 

 Guatemala (Salvin) and Belize (Sclater and Salvin), and remains as 

 far north as southern Lower California (Forrer) and the coasts of 

 Louisiana (Beyer), Florida (Scott), and Georgia (Worthington) . 



Migration range. — On the way from the summer home to the winter, 

 some individuals formerly took a course almost due east and appeared 

 in the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Macoun) and on the coast of 

 New England (Brown), becoming more common to the south until it 

 would hardly have been called rare on Long Island and the New 

 Jersey coast. At the present time it is almost unknown on the 

 Atlantic coast north of Florida. There seem to be no winter records 

 of the species in the West Indies, but as a rare visitant in fall migra- 

 tion it has been recorded from Cuba (Gundlach), Porto Rico (Gund- 

 lach), Grenada (Wells), Carriacou (Wells), and Trinidad islands 

 (Leotaud). 



A migration also takes place westward to the Pacific coast. Though 

 the species is not known to breed within several hundred miles of the 

 Rocky Mountains, yet it has been noted on the coast of southern 

 Alaska (Osgood) nearly a thousand miles west of the nearest breeding 

 grounds. This species therefore presents the unique spectacle of a, 

 bird breeding in the middle of the American continent and migrating 



