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Mr. Dixon took two males and two females at Griffin Point, June 

 28, 1914. 



I saw one flying east at Demarcation Point, June 5, 1914. 



Squatarola squatarola cynosurae Thayer and Bangs. 



AMERICAN BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 



We found the American Black-bellied Plover quite rare on the 

 north coast of Alaska. 



Several, including a pair with a downy young, were observed at 

 Collinson Point, August 3, 1913. A few were about on the seventh, 

 but by the ninth all but two or three had left. On August 1 1 several 

 were noted on the Hula-hula River. 



At Griffin Point, Mr. Dixon took two males on June 3 and 7, 1914. 



At Demarcation Point the species was noted but once, a single bird 

 flying east on June 7, 1914. 



Pluvialis dominicus dominicus (Miiller). 



GOLDEN plover. 



Although we found quite a number of Golden Plover about Collin- 

 son Point during the first week in August 1913, we did not find the 

 bird common between Collinson Point and Herschel Island. 



It was the first wader to reach Demarcation Point; a single female 

 was taken on May 21, 1914, most of the other early arrivals were 

 males. This female was very thin. Very few were seen during this 

 season, possibly only two pair, one of which nested about two miles 

 from camp. 



I found this nest on June 25 with three eggs about one quarter 

 incubated. The male was on the nest. It took several days to find 

 the nest, for the bird would leave when I was a long way off and begin 

 running about and feeding as though it had nothing else to do. By 

 placing a lump of tundra each day where I first saw the bird I eventu- 

 ally, found the liest, a mere depression in some greenish moss which 

 with scattered bits of brown dead vegetation harmonized extraordi- 

 narily with the eggs. 



When the bird saw that its nest was finally discovered it showed 

 great distress and ran towards me until about twenty paces distant 

 where it stood tottering as if about to fall, with one wing raised over 



