BROOKS: BIRDS FROM EAST SIBERIA AND ARCTIC ALASKA. 377 
Mr. Dixon took two males and two females at Griffin Point, June 
28, 1914. 
I saw one flying east at Demarcation Point, June 5, 1914. 
SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA CYNOSURAF Thayer and Bangs. 
AMERICAN BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
We found the American Black-bellied Plover quite rare on the 
north coast of Alaska. 
Several, including a pair with a downy young, were observed at 
Collinson Point, August 3, 1913. A few were about on the seventh, 
but by the ninth all but two or three had left. On August 11 several 
were noted on the Hula-hula River. 
At Griffin Puint, Mr. Dixon took two males on June 3 and 7, 1914. 
At Demarcation Point the species was noted but once, a single bird 
flying east on June 7, 1914. 
PLUVIALIS DOMINICUS DOMINICUS (Miiller). 
GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Although we found quite a number of Golden Plover about Collin- 
son Point during the first week in August 1913, we did not find the 
bird common between Collinson Point and Herschel Island. 
It was the first wader to reach Demarcation Point; a single female 
was taken on May 21, 1914, most of the other early arrivals were 
males. This female was very thin. Very few were seen during this 
season, possibly only two pair, one of which nested about two miles 
from camp. | 
I found this nest on June 25 with three eggs about one quarter 
incubated. The male was on the nest. It took several days to find 
the nest, for the bird would leave when I was a long way off and begin 
running about and feeding as though it had nothing else to do. By 
placing a lump of tundra each day where I first saw the bird I eventu- 
ally found the nest, a mere depression in some greenish moss which 
with scattered bits of brown dead vegetation harmonized extraordi- 
narily with the eggs. 
When the bird saw that its nest was finally discovered it showed 
great distress and ran towards me until about twenty paces distant 
where it stood tottering as if about to fall, with one wing raised over 
