202 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Famity XXII. CHARADRIIDAE. Provers. 
CXIV. VANELLUS Brisson. 1760. 
269. Lapwing. 
Vanellus vanellus (LINN.) LICHT. 1854. 
One obtained 7th January, 1820, near Fiskenes, Greenland; a 
second received at the Museum in Copenhagen from Julianshaab, 
in 1847. (Arct. Man.) On the islands in Norton sound, Alaska. 
(A. O. U. List.) A single specimen was taken near St. Johns, New- 
foundland, November 27th, 1905. A full account of this capture 
was printed in The Auk, Vol. xxiii., p. 221. 
CXV. BUDROMIAS Brexm. 1831. 
Dotterel. 
Eudromias morinellus (LINN.) BREHM. 1831. 
One specimen was taken at King island, Alaska, July 23rd, 1897, 
an adult female just beginning to moult. (McIlhenny.) The only 
American record. 
CXVI. SQUATAROLA CuviER. 1817. 
270. Black-bellied Plover. 
Squatarola squatarola (LINN.) CUVIER. 1817. 
Rare in Greenland, but found in both Inspectorates; said to breed 
on Melville peninsula. (Arct. Man.) Found at Whale point, Roes 
Welcome, Hudson bay, and evidently breeding there. (A. P. Low.) 
Common along west coast of James bay, August, 1904. (Spread- 
borough.) 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, Saskatchewan and Alberta in spring, and has 
been killed by Dippie at Reaburn, Manitoba, as late as June Ist, 
Bent reports seeing it in large flocks at Hay lake, Sask., May 29th 
to June ist, 1905. Atkinson says that in Manitoba and further 
west, it appears in uncertain numbers in May, sometimes in large 
flocks and then being absent for several years. Spreadborough 
