450 CHARADRIID.E. 



Mr. Dunn, have recorded it as common in the Orkney and 

 Shetland Islands. 



Professor Nilsson and Mr. Lloyd mention the Golden 

 Plover as annually visiting Sweden ; Mr. Hewitson saw it 

 in flocks on the cultivated ground in the south-western part 

 of Norway ; Mr. William Christy saw it at Hammerfest, 

 and Linnaeus mentions having seen plenty during his tour 

 in the Lapland Alps. It goes to the Faroe Islands, to 

 Iceland, and Greenland every summer ; and was seen on 

 different occasions by the Arctic voyagers from this country 

 as far to the northward and westward as the North 

 Georgian Islands and Felix Harbour. Dr. Richardson, in 

 the Fauna Boreali- Americana, says, " that the breeding 

 quarters of this well-known bird are the barren grounds 

 and the coasts and islands of the Arctic Sea. It hatches 

 early in June, and retires southwards in August. Numbers 

 linger on the muddy shores of Hudson"^ Bay, and on the 

 sandy beaches of rivers and lakes in the interior, until the 

 hard frosts of September and October drive them away. 

 At this period they are very fat, and are highly prized 

 by the epicures of the fur countries. They make but a 

 short stay, in Pennsylvania, and are said to winter beyond 

 the United States." There appears, however, to be some 

 doubt whether the bird which goes so far south as to 

 winter beyond the United States is the true CJi. pluvialis 

 of European naturalists. Sir William Jardine, Bart., in 

 the second volume of his illustrated edition of Wilson's 

 American Ornithology, has given the specific characters of 

 Ch. plumaUs and Ch. mrginianus in parallel columns : the 

 distinctions are conspicuous ; and the Prince of Musig- 

 nano has not included the Ch. pluvialis in his recently 

 published List of the Birds of North America. Two 

 examples of Golden Plover from North America in the 



