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exactly where to look. A favourite nesting place is on the high 
banks of the gullies or small streams. No nests were found in the 
grass or in swampy ground. (Murdoch.) 
272a. Pacific Golden Plover. 
Charadrius dominicus fulvus (GMEL.) RIDGW. 1880. 
This form and the eastern one seem to grade into each other on 
the northern Alaskan coast, but C. fulvus is the commoner toward 
Bering strait, and breeds along the coasts of both continents around 
the northern shores of Bering sea. Whether typical dominicus 
occurs on the Pacific coast is doubtful, but I have never taken such 
absolutely typical fulvus as some I collected at Comox, Vancouver 
island, after November 3rd, 1903. (Brooks.) Fairly common about 
St. Michael, and seen also on St. George island and Unalaska, Bering 
sea. (Bishop.) Said to be fairly common at Homer, Alaska, during 
September. I took specimens there during the latter part of August, 
and one at Popof island, December 15th. (Fvggins.) A common 
migrant on the Pribilof islands, Bering sea. (Palmer.) 
It is not uncommon on the islands off the coast, and Turner speaks 
of it being taken on the Aleutian islands. Nelson says that on the 
Siberian coast of Bering sea the typical Asiatic form is common, and 
is of much rarer occurrence on the Alaskan coast, from the peninsula 
of Alaska north to Point Barrow. 
CXVIII. OXYECHUS Reichenbach. 1852. 
273. Killdeer Plover. 
Oxyechus vocifera (LINN.) REICH. 1852. 
This is a rare migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 
wick and Quebec. In Ontario, it is much more common, and breeds 
in suitable localities throughout the province. Throughout Manitoba 
and the whole prairie country, this bird breeds abundantly. It is 
also common in the Rocky mountains and British Columbia, and 
breeds almost to the coast. Its northern limit is very likely the sub- 
arctic forest, as it seems to prefer open plains where brackish marshes 
are of frequent occurrence. Preble saw several on the grassy 
meadows between Fort Churchill and the mouth of the Churchill 
river. 
