stilt sandpiper. 1UM 
She atut Sandpiper is reported as (aUlf oeaaaoa In eastern 
;)aoiio 3 Aires hat 1 felled to onoountur it in that region* in the 0;>aoa 
* 
vToat of luorto Plnusoo. fturoguey, on Soptarabor 20* 1920 a thw& of a 
f 
dosen appear ed ; and from tpeo until Septoabo* 25 1 found the birds fair¬ 
ly ooaraoa in southward migration in bands that ntr&ered as high as 40 
o 
individuals, Apparently the spooler is local In ooourroneo later as 
none were seen farther south. It has been recorded from Uruguay. 
Greater Ysllowltge. 2ota.ra& 
She present apeoisa is owvaon end widespread throughout .Argentina 
am Uruguay. 'feough undoubtedly sonashat dtadniaied in nusctoor It is still 
holding its own as it is lees specialised or lifted in selection of habitat 
«Jtor. such spscdeo as the Sifciao Oar leu. It is another speed «e recorded 
thr oughottt the year in Argentina, bat rooords for the months when the bulls: 
of the species is on its northern brooding grounds, are based on crippled 
or diseased birds that are not breeding. 
1 saw the {proator lellowlsgs first on ^tombor 6, 1920 in the 
Paraguayan Ub&oo west of Puerto Plnasoo. and until the of Septa.r..- v 
the sieoies was noted passing slowly in southward migration* <J* 1. i'sters 
who was located at the 3s taco iu Hu^naluan in southern Bio 3egro (Patagonia) 
recorded the first arrival cm October 6* law and found the birds to 1 * ably 
0 
<tommn after that date. Daring Gotobor, JJOvoes bar and Deoedber 1 noted 
Grouts tfoHowlegs in saall flooics or alone, at mny looalitieo tharoagh 
the pampas* especially in the eastern part of the province of Buen o s lives. 
2bey were ootnon in mrshy areas in eastern Uruguay in Vebvtttfjr* and during 
the first woeifi in ifavdh passed tiaou^i Ouaraini in the Province of Buenos 
I 
Aires in obandamo, from winter ranges in Patagonia. '■ - anny/n, u^aAmm 
