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Georgia (Helme) — occasionally to North Carolina (Bishop) — Loui- 

 siana (Edwards), Texas (Merrill), and California. In this latter State 

 it winters on the coast north at least to Los Angeles County (Grinnell), 

 and in the interior to Owen Lake (Fisher). 



Spring migration. — The advance begins in March, and the first 

 reach Raleigh, N. C, on the average April 3, earliest March 22, 1893 

 (Brimley) ; Long Island, New York, average April 22, earliest April 

 17, 1896 (Worthington) ; eastern Massachusetts, average April 26, 

 earliest April 22, 1893 (Browne); southern Maine, average May 9, 

 earliest April 26, 1896 (Morrell); city of Quebec, Canada, average 

 April 30, earliest April 18, 1903 (Dionne); Point de Monts, Quebec, 

 average May 5, earliest April 26, 1885 (Comeau). Lake Mistassini, 

 Quebec, May 7, 1885 (Macoun). Some other early dates along the 

 Atlantic coast are: Patapsco Marsh, Maryland, March 26, 1875 (Kirk- 

 wood); Carlisle, Pa., March 19, 1844 (Baird); Westport Harbor, 

 Massachusetts, March 10, 1899 (Howe and Sturtevant). The average 

 date of arrival in central Illinois is April 6, earliest March 22, 1890 

 (Brown); Chicago, 111., average April 24, earliest April 14, 1895 

 (Blackwelder) ; Oberlin, Ohio, average April 18, earliest April 12, 1905 

 (Jones); southern Michigan, average April 27, earliest April 24, 1897 

 (Hankinson); southern Ontario, average April 28, earliest April 13, 

 1896 (Taverner); Ottawa, Ontario, average May 9, earliest April 28, 

 1905 (White); Keokuk, Iowa, average April 14, earliest March 26, 

 1893 (Currier); Elk River, Minn., average April 21, earliest April 17, 

 1886 (Bailey) ; Aweme, Manitoba, average May 4, earliest April 30, 

 1902 (Criddle); Kansas City, Mo., March 9, 1903 (Bryant); Manhat- 

 tan, Kans., March 11, 1883 (Lantz); Lincoln, Nebr., April 10, 1899 

 (Wolcott); Fort Lyon, Colo., March 28, 1886 (Thorne); Loveland, 

 Colo., March 26, 1890 (Smith); Cheyenne, Wyo., April 11, 1888 

 (Bond); Great Falls, Mont., April 17, 1892 (Williams); Rathdrum, 

 Idaho, April 20, 1901 (Danby); Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, May 23, 

 1860 (Ross), May 16, 1904 (Preble); Chilliwack, British Columbia, 

 March 28, 1888 and 1889 (Brooks); Fort Kenai, Alaska, May 6, 1869 

 (Bischoff). 



Those individuals that are to breed leave the United States by the 

 first week in June. The species is common in Chile and Argentina 

 through the winter and to early April, when most leave for the north, 

 but some remain the whole summer in Argentina (Holland), 6,000 

 miles south of the breeding range. 



Eggs have been taken at Fort St. James, British Columbia, May 31, 



1889 (MacFarlane) , and at Fort George, British Columbia, May 20, 



1890 (specimens in United States National Museum). The earliest 

 downy young noted in 1901 in the Caribou district, British Columbia, 

 were seen on June 15 (Brooks). 



Fall migration. — Hardly six weeks elapse between the passage 

 of the last northward-bound migrants on Long Island, New York, 



