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Asiatic race has been separated, while in the New World its breeding 

 range includes both coasts of Greenland and perhaps the east coast 

 of Baffin Land, unless the last statement is due to confusion with the 

 semipalmated plover. 



Winter range. — Many remain in the British Isles through the 

 winter, but birds from northern Europe migrate to the Mediter- 

 ranean region and Africa, where they have been recorded as far 

 south as Cape Province and Natal, the majority wintering south of 

 the Sahara. The Atlantic Isles (Canaries, Madeira, and Azores) 

 are visited on passage and Asiatic birds have been recorded from 

 the Indo-Malayan archipelago and even Australia, though some 

 doubt has been cast on this. 



SpHng migration. — The principal passage at Gibraltar takes place 

 in March, the latest birds leaving in April. From about mid March 

 to mid April old birds are on passage northward and the breeding 

 ground in Norway is reached in April, and in Sweden from late 

 March onward. 



Fall tnig ration. — In northern Europe (Norway and Sweden) the 

 southward movement takes place in September and at the Straits 

 of Gibraltar the passage lasts from September to November. At 

 Heligoland young birds begin to pass as early as the end of June 

 and the beginning of July. 



Casual records. — In Jan Mayen it apparently occurs in some num- 

 bers, but is not known to breed. Barbados, one. Chancery Lane, 

 September 10. Gould's record of one from Port Stevens, Australia, 

 is a somewhat questionable one. One obtained at Sultanpur, south 

 of Delhi, November, 1878 ; another at Gilgit, October, 1879. (These 

 records must refer to the Siberian race, as also probably the Chilean 

 occurrence and that from Sitka, Alaska.) 



Egg dates. — In northeast Greenland Manniche found eggs from 

 June 17 to July 18, while in Nova Zembla the young were recently 

 hatched at the beginning of August and eggs probably laid late in 

 June or early in July. In the British Isles eggs have been met with 

 in March, but most eggs are laid from the end of April onward. 

 April 16 to 30 (5 dates). May 1 to 14 (10 dates). May 15 to 31 (21 

 dates), June 1 to 30 (23 dates), July 1 to 30 (7 dates). 



CHARADRIUS DUBIUS CURONICUS Gmelin 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVER 



Contributed iy Francis Charles Robert Jourdain 



HABITS 



The little ringed plover owes its place in the American list to a 

 casual occurrence at Kodiak Island, Alaska. It is noteworthy that 

 in J. F. von Brandt's paper in the Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1891, 



