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in Colorado (Henshaw), and to central Texas (Gaut). It migrates 

 throughout western Mexico and east to Veracruz (Sartorius) and 

 Tehuantepec (Sumichrast). As already stated, the winter range 

 has not yet been determined. 



Green Sandpiper. Helodromas ocrophus (Linn.). 

 The green sandpiper, an Old World species, is widely distributed 

 breeding from the Pyrenees to southern Siberia, principally in the 

 mountains. It winters from southern Europe and Japan, through- 

 out Africa, and to Ceylon. It is supposed to have occurred at Hali- 

 fax, Nova Scotia (Harting), and in the Hudson Bay Company's 

 territory (Nuttall), but the evidence is not conclusive. 



Wood Sandpiper. Rhyacophilus glareola (Linn.). 

 The wood sandpiper is one of the best known of the Old World 

 sandpipers. It breeds over most of Europe and Asia from the valley 

 of the Danube and northern China to the Arctic coast. It winters 

 from the Mediterranean and India to southern Africa and the Malay 

 Archipelago. The only record of the species in North America is 

 that of a single specimen taken May 27, 1894, on Sanak Island, 

 Alaska (Littlejohn). 



Willet. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (Gmel.). 



Breeding range. — The breeding range of the willet on the Atlantic 

 coast has become much restricted of late years. Formerly it bred 

 north, commonly to New Jersey (Giraud) , and rarely to Sable Island 

 (eggs in United States, National Museum), Yarmouth (Bryant), 

 and Halifax (Brewer), Nova Scotia. It still breeds rather commonly 

 on the islands off the coast of Virginia (Dutcher), and a few may 

 breed in extreme southern New Jersey, but probably at present no 

 willets breed between there and Nova Scotia, where in 1903 it was 

 reported abundant at Barrington (Trotter). It breeds along the 

 south Atlantic coast to Florida (Scott), and throughout the Bahamas 

 (Bonhote.) 



Winter range. — On the Pacific coast it migrates in winter to Santa 

 Lucia, southern Peru (Taczanowski), and on the Atlantic coast 

 to the Amazon River (Pelzeln) . It occurs also in winter in northern 

 South America (Quelch), the Lesser and the Greater Antilles, the 

 Bahamas (Bonhote), Florida (Worthington), and casually in South 

 Carolina (Hoxie). 



Spring migration. — The willet starts north in March. Some dates 

 of spring arrival are: Hog Island, Virginia, average April 12, earliest 

 April 7, 1888 (Doughty); southern New Jersey, average April 19, 

 earliest April 6, 1877 (Scott); Erie, Pa., April 24, 1902 (Todd). The 

 species has been recorded in migration to Newfoundland (Reeks), 

 but it is not known to breed on that island. 



Eggs have been taken in the Bahamas from May 15 (Cory) to 

 July 6 (Allen); Sapelo Island, Georgia, April 22, 1888 (specimens in 



