RANGE AND MIGRATIONS. 
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sandpipers, nor do they, to any extent, remain on the islands 
to breed in summer. As a rule they all go North to breed, 
and they also go further South to pass the winter. A strag¬ 
gler may be occasionally found in winter, even as far north 
as New England, but this is an exception to the general 
rule. Their return trip in spring is very far to the westward 
of these islands, and of course would not be observed at that 
season. * 
Mr. F. A. Ober, in his admirable work entitled “Camps in 
the Caribees,” enumerates seventeen species of these waders 
as “birds of the Lesser Antilles,” all of which come from the 
United States. He does not seem to have met either of the 
godwits, Tring a canutus , 31. griseus , or Numenius borealis. 
Why he did not meet with them is a marvel, especially the 
last named, which elsewhere travels in company with G. 
Virginicus, and is recognized by other authorities as a visit¬ 
ant to adjacent islands. Possibly at the period of their pass¬ 
age he was in the mountains securing some rarer specimens 
of that region. But most of the Limicolae do reach these 
islands, a part of them coming in a “bee-line” from New¬ 
foundland, and a part coasting along down to the Carolinas, 
dropping off on the road as inclination or strength might 
dictate, and striking out southeast till they reach the Wind¬ 
ward Islands, where again they join the columns from the 
north. It would not be at variance with the facts herein 
collated to suppose that the birds that set out upon the lonely 
journey from Newfoundland or Nova Scotia would pass to 
the eastward of the Bermudas while those that pursue the 
coast line, if caught out in a westerly gale, would be blown 
on to that group. A letter from a reliable gentleman (W. 
W. D.) residing on one of the Bermudas, informs us “the 
plover and curlew, before the country was so broken up for 
agricultural purposes, were quite plenty in large flocks about 
the marshes and valleys, but now they are quite scarce. 
Generally make their appearance about September and Octo¬ 
ber. They always show themselves after a strong westerly 
gale.” He also incloses Lieut. Dennison’s list of one hun¬ 
dred and seventy-nine species of birds that visit the islands. 
