84 CRUISE OF STEAM KK (OKNVIN IN TflK AKCTIC OCEAN. 



SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Linn i Cuv. 



(S6.) The 15i>ack-belliki) I'i-ovek. 



This liaiKlsoiiicly iiliiiiiiij;i'(l Plover ivaclies the shores of Hcriii^ Sea in .May, ami leinaiiis to 

 broeil al various points, trc(iiicntinj;- the vicinity of the larger river months Ity preference, although 

 if occurs at various other points itlonj;- the coast. Its range also extends to the Asiatic Shore, 

 where it is not numerous, and north to Point Barrow, iu Alaska. It has not been recorded from 

 any of the islands of Bering Sea, although from its known range on the mainhind it umloulttedly 

 occurs on many of tliem. 



CHARADRIUS DOMINICUS Mull. 



(87.) The .Amekkan Cot-uen I'lover. 



The large form of the Golden Plover, which is so familiar to all in the Eastern United States, 

 extends its summei- range north and northwest to the shores of the Arctic Ocean and tlience to the 

 entire Alaskan coast of Bering Sea, ranging oc(!asionally to the adjacent Siberiari shore and the 

 ishinds in this sea, whence specimens have been obtained. Along this portion of its range, 

 including the Bering Sea islands and the North Abiskan coast, its habitat intermingles with that 

 of the small Asiatic form, which also comes to these northern latitudes in summer to rear its young. 

 The (iolden Plover is one of the handsomest as well as most interesting of the waders occurring 

 in tht! North, and its gentle habits and sweetly modulated notes make it a very welcome visitor. 

 During the mating season the males have a rich liijuid song of the most musical character, and 

 their beautifully blended black, white, and golden i)lnmage renders them very conspicuous. 



CHARADRIUS DOMINICUS TULVUS (Gmel. i Ridgw. 



(8S.) The Pacific Golden Plover. 



The tirst record of this form on American territory was in Elliott's "Condition of Atfairs in 

 Alaska." Here is described a single specimen of typical fiih us which he obtained upon Saint Paul 

 Island. During my residence in the North I gathered a large series of (jolden Plover, mainly 

 from the coast of Norton Sound, and among these I found every step of gradation between the 

 large Eastern American and small Eastern Asiatii; form. A stuange fact to be noted here is that 

 the adults taken on the Bering sea-coast of Alaska average large, and show characteristics which 

 render them more closely allied or identical with the Eastern American form, whereas the young- 

 birds taken in the same localities are so covered with rich golden si)ots and shading that they 

 would be unhesitatingly refernul to the variety /({/(•((.v. .\long the entire Asiatic; shore of Bering 

 Sea tiiis form occurs as a summer resident, wherever the country is sufticiently level to afford 

 it proper feeding ground and breeding i)laces. It was also one of the few birds we found on 

 Wrangel Island, a single S]tecimen iu breeding plumage being seen when we made our landing on 

 the 12th of August. As in tin; case of the Turnstone, the Golden Plover is yet to be recorded 

 from the Aleutian Islands, although it must necessarily visit them during its migrations. While 

 midway between Ounalaska and California, the 1st of October, 18S1, a small Hock of these birds 

 were seen passing overhead, steering their course directly for the, Sandwich Islands, which were 

 about one thousand miles distant at the time. They make this long flight twice annually, passing 

 to and fro across the entire North Pacific, and winter u])on the Sandwich Islands, summering 

 uorth of the Aleutian chain. 



iEGIALITES SEMIPALMATUS Bouap. 



(89.) The Semi-Palmated Plover. 



On both shores of Bering Sea, extending on the Alaskan coast from the peninsula of Aliaska 

 north to Point Barrow and along the entire northeastern Asiatic coast. To the northwest of 

 Bering Strait, wherever we landed from the Corwin during the summer of ISSI, these birds were 

 found, although sjiaringly. It was not seen abundantly in any locality, but a pair of adults were 



