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eastward across the Tundras of Northern Siberia, to the shores 

 of the sea of Okhotsk and the peninsula of Kamtschatka. In 

 this region it does not breed so far north as the Grey Plover, 

 though I am not able to give any precise limit to its Arctic 

 migration beyond the statement that Mr. Seebohm found it 

 breeding abundantly at Golcheeka on the Yenesei. From 

 these northern regions it migrates in vast numbers southward 

 through Mongolia and down the coasts of China and Japan^ 

 passing westwards into India, Burmali, Ceylon, and Malacca, 

 and eastwards through the Malay Archipelago to Australia, 

 spreading from the former region outwards to Polynesia, and 

 from Australia to New Zealand, It arrives in India and 

 Ceylon as early as the month of August, numbers of examples 

 still wearing the breeding plumage, and is very abundant. 

 It probably passes into the Peninsula from the highlands of 

 Mongolia and Tartary, crossing over the eastern spurs of the 

 Himalayas into Assam and Burmah, and then spreads west- 

 wards through India. In the extreme north-west of India 

 it is not so abundant, a few birds migrating perhaps via 

 Turkestan over the mountains into the Punjaub, for it is 

 recorded from the district of Gilgit as a bird of passage in 

 spring and autumn. It leaves India for its breeding-grounds 

 as late as the month of May, many examples being then 

 almost completely clothed in breeding dress. In Mongolia 

 and on the Amoor it is found on passage in spring and autumn, 

 and the same may be said of the coast of China, the islands 

 of Hainan and Formosa, and the Phihppines. From thence 

 it wanders eastwards into Polynesia, being found in the 

 Loochoo Islands, the Pelews, the Carohnes, the Marshalls, 

 and Gilberts, the Sandwich Islands, and as far east as the 

 Marquesas. In the Marshalls, Dr. Finsch met with it as 

 early in the season as August. Further south it occurs in the 

 New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and Fiji, 

 while on some small islands off the coast of New Caledonia it 

 was found breeding by Edgar Layard in the month of April. 

 A more remarkable feature, however, in the economy of this 

 plover is its breeding in New Zealand during the summer 

 season of this hemisphere, which is in reality the winter time 

 of its migration. The authority for this occurrence is to be 

 found in a paper by Mr. C. H. Robson, communicated by 

 Buller to the " Transactions and Proceedings of the New 

 Zealand Institute, vol. xvi., p. 308," in which the former 

 writer states that he found the Golden Plover breeding at the 

 north end of Portland Island in the month of January, 1883, 



