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271. Golden Plover. 
Charadrius apricarius LINN. 1758. 
One specimen, taken in summer plumage, was shot in the 
spring of 1871, on the Noursoak Peninsula ; and believed by Dr. 
Finch to breed in East Greenland. (Arct. Man.) The Director 
of the colony of Frederickshaab reports taking a young bird of 
this species in August, 1887. (Hagerup.) 
272. American Golden Plover. 
Charadrius dominicus MUuLL. 1776. 
Somewhat rare in Greenland, but possibly breeds there as it 
does in considerable abundance on swampy places in the Parry 
Islands. (Avrct. Wan.) A common autumn migrant in Newfound- 
land, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Que- 
bec and Ontario. It is rarely seen in the spring and we have no 
account of its breeding in any of these provinces. In Manitoba 
and the other prairie provinces it is both a spring and autumn 
migrant and leaves for the north the last week in May, returning 
about the middle of August. It is not known to breed in Labra- 
dor but doubtless does along the western coasts of Hudson Bay. 
Its breeding grounds are from Hudson Bay westward, including 
the Barren Grounds and the coasts of the Arctic Sea, to the north 
of the Mackenzie, Point Barrow and south-westward around the 
whole northern coast of Alaska, where it seems to meet the Siberian 
form. It is said to breed in northern British Columbia, and the 
specimens taken, although not referable, according to Mr. S. N. 
Rhoads, to C. fu/vus,are darker underneath than eastern specimens. 
BREEDING Notes.—The breeding quarters of this well-known 
bird are the Barren Grounds and the coasts and islands of the 
Arctic Sea. It hatches early in June, and retires southward in 
August. (Richardson.) This beautiful species is very numerous 
in the Barren Grounds from the outskirts of the forest to the 
shores of the Polar Sea. The nests were found to be precisely 
similar to those of C. sguatarola. They were also as difficult to 
detect, and for the same reason, a harmonizing resemblance of 
the egg markings to the surrounding soil and a timeous depar- 
ture of the female bird from her nest. I find 170 nests recorded 
in my notes. Except when there was reason to believe that the 
