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Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti. It winters in southern United States, 

 north on the Atlantic coast to Cobb Island, Virginia (Rives), in the 

 interior to Mount Carmel, 111. (Ridgway), San Angelo, Tex. (Lloyd), 

 San Pedro, Ariz. (Scott), Pecks Lake, Ariz. (Mearns), and St. Thomas, 

 Nev. (Bailey) ; and along the whole Pacific coast from San Jose del 

 Cabo, Lower California (Frazar), to Chuliwack and Okanogan, B. C. 

 (Brooks). It has been noted in winter near Cambridge, Mass. 

 (Brewster), Buckhannon, W. Va. (Day), and at Barr Lake, Colo. (Her- 

 sey and Rockwell), and in late fall migration hi Bermuda (Hurdis), 

 and on Clipperton Island, southwest of Mexico (Beck) . 



Spring migration. 



Raleigh, N. C 



Scott Depot, W. Va 



Gunpowder Marsh, Md. 



Renovo, Pa 



Erie, Pa 



Branchport, N. Y. (near). 



Cambridge, Mass 



Montreal, Canada. 



Quebec City, Canada 



Knoxville, Term 



Versailles, Ky 



Central Missouri 



Southern Illinois 



Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind 



English Lake, Ind 



Brookville, Ind 



Chicago, LI 



Rockford, 111 



Waterloo, Ind 



Oberlin, Ohio 



Vicksburg, Mich 



Southern Ontario 



Ottawa, Ont 



Keokuk, Iowa 



Sioux City, Iowa 



Laporte, Iowa 



Delavan, Wis 



La Crosse, Wis 



Heron Lake, Minn 



Lanesboro, Minn 



Minneapolis, Minn 



White Earth, Minn 



Manhattan, Kans 



Onaga, Kans 



Southeastern Nebraska 



Southeastern South Dakota. 



Reaburn, Man 



South Qu'Appelle, Sask 



Osier, Sask 



Fort Vermilion, Alta 



Fort Simpson, Mackenzie. 



Gila City, Ariz 



Camp Grant, Ariz 



Boulder, Colo 



Loveland, Colo 



Cheyenne, Wyo 



Rathdrum, Idaho 



Great Falls, Mont 



Chilliwack, B. C 



Place. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 years' 

 records. 



Average 

 date of 

 spring 

 arrival. 



Mar. 19 



Apr. 22 



Mar. 17 

 Mar. 15 



Mar. 31 



Mar. 25 



Apr. 4 



Apr. 9 



Apr. 2 



Mar. 28 



Apr. 23 



May 3 



Mar. 28 



Mar. 25 



Mar. 30 



Mar. 26 



Apr. 2 



Apr. 1 



Apr. 18 



Apr. 19 



May 2 



Apr. 12 

 Apr. 3 

 Apr. 7 

 Apr. 28 

 Apr. 25 



Mar. 21 



Apr. 26 

 Apr."" 10 ' 



Earliest date 

 of spring 

 arrival. 



Apr. 6, 1898 

 Mar. 15,1907 

 Mar. 14,1893 

 Mar. 5, 1900 

 Mar. 28,1898 

 Apr. 12,1888 

 Apr. 18,1890 

 Apr. 28,1893 

 May 14,1890 

 Mar. 27,1909 

 Mar. 24,1904 

 Feb. 23,1898 

 Feb. 26,1890 

 Jan. 10,1901 

 Feb. 14,1891 

 Mar. 26,1888 

 Mar. 19,1886 

 Mar. 19,1891 

 Mar. 17,1907 

 Mar. 9, 1908 

 Mar. 19,1904 

 15, 1885 

 27,1892 

 13,1900 

 21, 1909 

 16,1886 



Mar. 

 Apr. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 



Mar. 24,1894 

 Mar. 25,1910 



Mar. 

 Apr. 

 Apr. 

 May 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Apr. 



16 



16,1892 

 15,1906 

 1,1880 

 19,1897 

 31, 1903 

 18, 1909 

 27,1910 

 17, 1895 

 Apr. 20,1908 

 May 1,1893 

 May 8, 1909 



and 1911. 

 June 1,1905 

 Mar. 1,1894 

 Mar. 20,1869 

 Feb. 27,1904 

 Mar. 10,1887 

 Apr. 12,1888 

 Apr. 25,1903 

 Apr. 26,1892 

 Rare, winter. 



The coot is reported to remain in northern Florida to May 2, 1908, 

 average, April 30; Canaveral, Fla., April 29, 1889; Washington, 

 D. C, May 2, 1904; southern Louisiana, May 18, 1898, average, 



