ABT. 12 BIRDS OF ST. LAWEENCE ISLAND FRIEDMANN 17 



Oru8 canadensis, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made in 

 Alaska, p. 95, 1887.— Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, p. 388, 1915. 



Nelson recorded the little brown crane as a summer resident on St. 

 Lawrence Island. Brooks saw two pairs at the southeast end of the 

 island, " where a pair and one juvenile about a week old were taken 

 June 27, 1913." 



Collins noted the presence of this bird in the summer of 1930, but 

 he was not able to obtain a specimen. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE, Plovers, Turnstones, Surf-birds 



CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS Bonaparte 



SeMIPALMATED rL0\^B 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 



5, p. 98, 1825 (new name for Tringa hiaticnla Wilson; coast of New Jersey). 

 AeyiaJitcs semipalmatus, Nelson, Birds of Bering Sea, etc., Cruise of the 



Convin, pp. 84-85, 1883. 



Nelson found this plover on St. Lawrence Island, thereby estab- 

 lishing its place in the known avifauna of the island. 



PLUVIALIS DOMINICA FULVA (Gmelin) 



Pacific Golden Ploveb 



Charadrius fulvus Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. ii, p. 687, 1789 (based 



on the Fulvous Plover, Latham, Synopsis, vol 3, p. 211 : In Tahiti maritimis 



et uligiuosis=Society Islands). 

 Charadrius dominicus, Nei-son, Report upon natural history collections made in 



Alaska, p. 124, 1887. 

 Charadrius dominicus fulvus, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections 



made in Alaska, p. 125, 1887. 



As was pointed out long ago by Nelson, the relationships of the 

 golden plovers of the Bering Sea coasts and islands are involved, 

 because both do7iiinica and fulva intergrade there. Nelson examined 

 a long series and decided that on " the Siberian coast of Bering Sea 

 the typical Asiatic form is found common, and is of much rarer 

 occurrence on the Alaskan coast, from the peninsula of Alaska north 

 to Point Barrow. On this stretch of coast to the island of St. Law- 

 rence dominicus is the predominating form, but specimens are 

 found grading in a regular series from this bird to the fulvus of the 

 Asiatic region * * *." 



Bailey," quoting Bangs, states that Wainwright, Alaska, must be 

 close to the meeting ground of the two races. 



Collins collected 5 specimens at Gambell — 2 males, 2 unsexed, and 

 1 female — in September. All these birds I refer to fulva and not to 



"Condor, vol. 28, p. 85, 1926. 



