CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 185 
Famity XXII. CHARADRIIDAS. Ptovers. 
XCVITI. VANELLUS Brisson. 1760. 
269. Lapwing. 
Vanellus vanellus (LINN.) LicHT. 1854. 
One obtained 7th January, 1820, near Fiskenzs, Greenland ; a 
second received at the Museum in Copenhagen from Julianehaab 
in 1847. (Arct. Man.) On the islands in Norton Sound, Alaska. 
CAS OG L7st). 
XCIX. CHARADRIUS Linnzvus. 1758. 
270. Black-bellied Plover. 
Charadrius squatarola (LINN.) Naum. 1834. 
Rare in Greenland, but found in both Inspectorates ; said to 
breed on Melville Peninsula. (Avct. Wan.) A common autumn 
migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. A 
migrant in Quebec and Ontario in both spring and fall. Reversing 
its line of migration this bird appears in Manitoba, Assiniboia and 
Alberta in spring, and has been killed by Dippie at Reaburn, 
Manitoba, as late as June Ist. On Hudson Bay it is common, 
and extends its range thence westward including the whole 
Arctic coast and all Northern Alaska and down the Pacific coast 
to the southern boundary of British Columbia. 
BREEDING Nores.—Our first introduction to this handsome and 
somewhat rare Arctic plover was on Island Point, in Franklin 
Bay, on July 4th, 1864. The nest contained four eggs and was 
composed of a small quantity of withered grass placed in a 
depression on the side or face of a very gentle eminence. Both 
parents were seen and the male shot. On the following day 
another nest with four eggs was discovered and a third also met 
with. In 1865 seven nests were gathered by our party in the 
same quarter. (MJacfarlanc.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three specimens ; one purchased with the Holman collection ; 
another taken on Toronto Island by Mr. S. Herring, and a third 
at Edmonton, Alberta, in May, 1897, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
