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Dr. Cooper did not Hu<l this species comnioii along the soutliern portion of the 

 California »oa.st. At San Diego he saw only .)ne small Hook, on the lid of May. On 

 the 3d of May, l(Sr»4, he I'oinid tliem niigrating north of the Colinnhia Kiver, and 

 is eontident that none remain within the L'nited States during the summer. They 

 return in SeptcMuber, and frecpient the dry fields, as well as the shore and bays. 



In its soutliern migrations it visits lierniuda. oceurring there fnmi the Kith of 

 •Vugust to the last of OetoU'r. It visits all tiie West India Islands, the (Jalapagos, 

 ami South America, as far at least as I?razil and Peru. 



Its northern migrations e-xtend to IJreeidand. Dr. Walker, of the " Fox," met with 

 it thert', and afterward, in .Fune. in the marshy valli'vs near HeUot's Strait, where it 

 was breeding. It is not meiitinnt'd as having Imm-u met witli l>y Cai)tain H. kiston on 

 the Saskatchewan, but is recorded as having been taken at Vork Factory ; and Mr. 

 Murray |trocured it from near Severn House, from Hudson's Hay. and also In'tween 

 there and Lake Winnii>cg. Mr. H. K. Hoss found it common on the Mackenzie 

 Kiver. A few are known to summer, and probably to Inccd. on (Irand Menan. 

 Richardson states that this s])ecies al)ound during the summer throughout Arctic 

 America, where it breeds in situations similar to those inhaliited by the (Jolden 

 Plover. The natives aver that, on the approa<'li of a storm, this bird has been 

 known to clap its wings and to make a chirruping noise. 



Mr. Kcnnicott met with it in .lunc at Lake Winnipeg, in Se])tember at Fort 

 Sim])Son. ami in May at Fort Resolution and on the Vnktni River. Mr. B. R. Rosa 

 procured specimens at Fort Simpson in .May, and Mr. MacFarlane found it breeding 

 on the Arctic coast, June 'JO, and afterward on the Anderson River. Mr. Mc- 

 Dougal met with it in the (Sens de Large .Mountains, and Mr. R. McDonald in the 

 mountains west of the Low»'r ^lackenzie River. 



In Florida, according to Mi'. N. I?. ^loore, the Ring Plover is present during the 

 entire winter, arriving there as early as the 11th of August. 



Dr. Rryant found this bird a winter resident in the Hahaiuas, where it remained 

 from its autumnal Higlit until its departure in May. Dr. (iray.son found a single 

 individual, assigned to this species, on Mare Island, in San I'ablo Hay, near San 

 Francisco. Mr. Nelson states tliat in Illinois the spring migrations of this Plover 

 extend from April 2."> to Alay .'50, and its fall movements from .Inly 31 to the end 

 of October. He is suspicions that some breed not much to the north of Chicago ; 

 l)ut ills ojiinions require confirmation. 



Audubon states that this bird i>as.ses the winter along the shores of South Caro- 

 lina, (Jeorgia, Florida, and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Dresser mentions 

 it as common about the pond-holes near San Antonio in the autumn and spring, but 

 noticed noiu' near ^latamoras, and docs not speak of it as being seen in winter. 

 It is found during the winter in .Mexico, C'cntnil America, and in several of the AVest 

 India Islands. Salvin met with it in Guatemala on the sandy flats near Chiapam. 

 Mr. Leotand mentions its making its appearance in Trinidad each year, from the last 

 of July to October, and in much larger flocks than the in/sonluti. They live in the 

 same manner as the latter do. but not unfreqitently forsake the borders of the sea to 

 iced in the moist lamls of the interior. .Vt the time of their general dejiarture a few 

 are observed to remain behind and to continue about the edges of marshy pools. 



While a few keej) in pairs, until joined by their i)rood, this Plover is generally 

 found in small scattered groups of five to ten associated together, yet each pair by 

 itself. They frequent alike salt-marshes, sandy lieaches, and mud-flats left bare by 

 the receding tide. They are found in company with several of the smaller Tringce ; 

 and although each bird, while searching for food, appears to be unmindful of the 



