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berry, Manitoba, May 30, 1886 (Seton); southwestern Saskatchewan, 

 May 29, 1905 (Bent). 



Fall migration. — Birds were observed at Lipscomb, Tex., July 10, 

 1903 (Howell), and as they do not breed in that locality, these were 

 southbound migrants. Observers easily detect the call notes of the 

 upland plover as it passes overhead in the darkness, and these 

 calls are usually the first signs of the fall migration. The earliest 

 notes in 1895 at Baltimore, Md., were heard July 3, 1895 (Kirkwood); 

 at Washington, D. C, the first calls have been heard usually between 

 July 10 and July 16, while in 1896 the birds were seen July 7 (Rich- 

 mond). The average date of arrival in southern Louisiana is July 23, 

 earliest July 9, 1895 (Blakemore); Gainesville, Tex., July 13, 1885 

 (Ragsdale); Fort Lyon, Colo., July 12, 1886 (Thorne) ; Sulphur 

 Springs, Ariz., August 18, 1874 (Henshaw) ; Chapala, Jalisco, August 

 27 (Richardson); San Jose, Costa Rica, September 5, 1890 (Cherrie) ; 

 Barbados, West Indies, August 12, 1886 (Manning); Cienega, Colom- 

 bia, September 15, 1898 (Allen). In September they first appear on 

 their passage through Peru (Sclater and Salvin) , and are noted as arriv- 

 ing at their winter home in Argentina (Sclater and Hudson). The 

 last one was seen September 6, 1903, at Big Sandy, Mont. (Coubeaux) ; 

 at Fort Lyon, Colo., September 2, 1886 (Thorne) ; near Cape Eskimo, 

 Keewatin, August 13, 1900 (Preble); Aweme, Manitoba, average 

 September 6, latest September 28, 1897 (Criddle) ; Onaga, Kans., aver- 

 age September 14, latest October 15, 1896 (Crevecoeur) ; southern Iowa, 

 average September 20, latest September 30, 1896 (Savage); Livonia, 

 Mich., September 18, 1891 (Alexander); Detroit, Mich., October 20, 



1902 (Swales); Chicago, 111., average September 6, latest September 

 22, 1906 (Armstrong and Lawson); Lexington, Ky., October 11, 



1903 (Dean); New Orleans, La., October 7, 1896 (Kopman); North 

 River, Prince Edward Island, August 25, 1887 (Bain) ; Pittsfield, Me., 

 September 22, 1895 (Morrell) ; Taunton, Mass., September 19, 1889 

 (Scudder); Germantown, Pa., October 2, 1887 (Stone); Key West, 

 Fla., October 3, 1888 (Scott); near Atlanta, Ga., November 27, 1903 

 (Smith); Escondido, Nicaragua, November 26, 1892 (Richmond); 

 San Jose, Costa Rica, November 15, 1889 (Cherrie); Davila, Panama, 

 November 30, 1900 (Bangs). 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Tryngites subruficollis ( Vieill.). 

 Summer range. — The buff-breasted sandpiper is known to breed 

 from Point Barrow, Alaska (Murdoch), to near Franklin Bay, Mac- 

 kenzie (MacFarlane) . It was taken in June at Repulse Bay (Rae), 

 and undoubtedly breeds along the whole Arctic coast east to Hudson 

 Bay. Not quite so certain is the breeding of the bird on the coast 

 of northeastern Siberia. It was found to be quite common there 

 near Koliuchin Bay, August 1, 1881 (Nelson), and had probably bred 

 there, but no nests or young were found, and the individuals seen 

 mav have been early fall wanderers from Alaskan breeding grounds. 



