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found it common at Lesser Slave lake, Atha., September 3rd, 1903. 
On Hudson bay it is common, and extends its range thence west- 
ward, including the whole Arctic coast and all northern Alaska and 
down the Pacific coast to the southern boundary of British Columbia. 
BREEDING Notes.—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. (Macjfarlane.) 
CXVII. CHARADRIUS Linnzvus. 1758. 
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 MULL. 1776. 
Somewhat rare in Greenland, but possibly breeds there as it does 
jn considerable abundance on swampy places on the Parry islands. 
(Arct. Man.) A common autumn migrant in Newfoundland, Nova 
Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. 
It is rarely seen in the spring, and we have no account of its breed- 
ing 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 Labrador, 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 
southwestward around the whole northern coast of Alaska, where 
