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Casual records. — South of New Jersey on the Atlantic coast, this 

 species has been recorded on a few occasions, among which are: 

 District of Columbia, Washington, one about 18C0; Virginia, Smiths 

 Island, September 28, 1897, and Wallops Island, several occurrences 

 between August 12 and October 3 (Warren) ; North Carolina, several 

 records in spring between April 15 (Waterlily), and May 10 (Curri- 

 tuck), and in fall between August 29 (Martins Point), and September 

 29 (Cliurchs Island) ; South Carolina, Chester County, September 



19, 1877, Christ Church Parish, November 27, 1912, and Charleston, 

 November 4, 1911, and December, 1880; and Florida, Miakka, No- 

 vember 19, 1901, and December, 1900. 



On the Pacific coast of the United States it is only casual : Wash- 

 ington, several records in the fall between September 9 (Port Town- 

 send), and November 14 (Dungeness) ; Oregon, Netarts Bay, Sep- 

 tember 7, 1912; and California, Playa del Rey Lagoon, October 4, 

 1923, Santa Cruz, October 22, 1888, and possible at Coronado, Jan- 

 uary 12-20, 1908 (Torrey). Suckley reported it from the vicinity 

 of San Francisco, and Kobbe from Menlo Park and Vallejo, but 

 both of these records are indefinite. 



The American golden plover has been obtained a few times in 

 Great Britain, Essex, August, 1896, Perthshire, August, 1883, 

 Leadenhall Market, fall of 1882, and Mayo County, September, 

 1894; while a single specimen was taken on Heligoland, December 



20, 1847. 



Egg Dates. — Arctic coasts of Alaska and Canada : 176 records, 

 June 1 to July 15 ; 88 records, June 25 to July 2. 



PLUVIALIS DOMINICA FULVA (Gmelin) 

 PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER 



HABITS 



The Pacific golden plover is a smaller and more brightly colored 

 subspecies of the American golden plover. It breeds on the Arctic 

 coast of Siberia from the Yenesei River to Bering Strait and on the 

 Bering Sea coast of Alaska. On the coast of Alaska north of Bering 

 Strait it intorgradc-s with the American form, and there is some evi- 

 dence that it intergrades or hybridizes with the European golden 

 plover at the western end of its range. It is known as the Asiatic or 

 eastern golden plover by European writers. It winters from India 

 and China to Australia, New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, and 

 many other islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. 



Spring. — This plover makes even more wonderful migratory flights 

 than its American relative, for between its winter and its summer 

 homes it travels twice each year over thousands of miles of trackless 



