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and Mexico to Chile, including the Galapagos; from Louisiana south along 
the eastern shores of Central America, and on the Atlantic coast from New 
Jersey south through the West Indies to southern Brazil, Migrates in spring 
and fall along the coasts of the Old World, less Commonly inland; in the 
New World in spring, along the Pacific coast, through the West Indies and 
along the Atlantic coast, and regularly but locally in the interior, west 
of Hudson Bay. In fall, over the spring route, and in America also east 
of Hudson Bay, spreading to Newfoundland. Casual in Labrador, Greenland, 
Iceland, the Faeroes, Azores, Madeiras, Clipperton Island, and interior 
Brazil. Accidental in the Hawaiian Islands and in Argentina. (AOU Check¬ 
list of North American Birds, 1957)* 
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POBSP Specimens ; USNM 494120, cf, te. 2 mm., 13 March 1965; USNM 494121, 9, 
ovary 10 mm., 13 March 1965 . 
Ruddy Burnstone ( Arenaria interpres ) 
Current Status: Regular migrant. 
Prior Records: "A species of sandpiper (perhaps Tringa minuta ) tf was seen 
ff in flocks ,r on Lisianski by Isenbeck in March 1828 (Kittlitz, o£, cit .). 
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Rothschild (op . cit .) suggests that this was Calidris sp., but it seems 
more likely that it was Arenaria . "Some" were seen by Palmer in late 
June I 89 I (ibid .). A dozen were seen by Munter (op. cit .) in March 1915- 
Wetmore (unpub. notes, 1923) haw a maximum of four birds in May 1923- Two 
to three hundred birds were seen on the island by Richardson (pers. comm.) 
t 
in March 1954. A flock of 100 was observed by Woodside and Kramer (op. cit . ) 
in March 1961 . 
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Population : The species is a seasonal migrant through the Leeward HaWaiians. 
On Kure Atoll, 3°° miles to the northwest, more birds move through in the 
fall migration, and some remain all summer. 
