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exactly where to look. A favourite nesting place is on the high 

 banks of the gullies or small streams. No nests were found in the 

 grass or in swampy ground. (Murdoch.) 



272a. Pacific Golden Plover. 



Charadrins dominicus ftihus (Gmel.) Ridgw. 1880. 



This form and the eastern one seem to grade into each other on 

 the northern Alaskan coast, but C. fulvus is the commoner toward 

 Bering strait, and breeds along the coasts of both continents around 

 the northern shores of Bering sea. Whether typical dominicus 

 occurs on the Pacific coast is doubtful, but I have never taken such 

 absolutely typical fulvus as some I collected at Comox, Vancouver 

 island, after November 3rd, 1903. {Brooks.) Fairly common about 

 St. Michael, and seen also on St. George island and Unalaska, Bering 

 sea. {Bishop.) Said to be fairly common at Homer, Alaska, during 

 September. I took specimens there during the latter part of August, 

 and one at Popof island, December 15th. (Figgins.) A common 

 migrant on the Pribilof islands, Bering sea. (Palmer.) 



It is not uncommon on the islands off the coast, and Turner speaks 

 of it being taken on the Aleutian islands. Nelson says that on the 

 Siberian coast of Bering sea the typical Asiatic form is common, and 

 is of much rarer occurrence on the Alaskan coast, from the peninsula 

 of Alaska north to Point Barrow. 



CXYIII. OXYECHUS Reichenbach. 1852. 

 273. Killdeer Plover. 



Oxyechus vocijera (LiNX.) Reich. 1852. 



This is a rare migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 

 wick and Quebec. In Ontario, it is much more common, and breeds 

 in suitable localities throughout the province. Throughout Manitoba 

 and the whole prairie country, this bird breeds abundantly. It is 

 also common in the Rocky mountains and British Columbia, and 

 breeds almost to the coast. Its northern limit is very likely the sub- 

 arctic forest, as it seems to prefer open plains where brackish marshes 

 are of frequent occurrence. Preble saw several on the grassy 

 meadows between Fort Churchill and the mouth of the Churchill 



