490 Transactions. 
Авт. 35.—Notes on the Migratory Plovers of New Zealand, with | 
ecords of some Additional Species. | 
By Epcan Е. STEAD. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 7th September, 1921; received 
by Editor, 31st December, 1921; issued separately, 12th May, 1923.] 
Vetola lapponica baueri Naumann, 1836. Bar-tailed or Pacific godwit. | 
Limosa baueri Naumann, Убу. Deutschl, 8, p. 429, 1836. Limosa — 
lapponica subsp. novae-zealandiae Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
vol. 24, p. 377, 1896. Limosa novae-zealandiae Buller, Suppl ~ 
Most of our regular migrants belong to the Charadridae, or plover 2 
family, and the best-known among them is the Eastern bar-tailed godwit _ 
in the summer, there are practically no breeding-grounds for land-birds in 
the Antarctic. 5 
n the approach of summer in the high latitudes of the Northem — 
Hemisphere the snow recedes, uncovering rich feeding-grounds for а vast — ' 
concourse of birds. Of this host, a large proportion consists of members — 
of the plover and duck families, many species of which breed right upm E 
the Arctic Circle and then migrate south for the winter. This migration, — 
so far as the plovers are concerned, may be roughly classed under pe с 
heads : (1) The American birds, which migrate chiefly up and down t е 
American Continent ; (2) the European birds, which come down to Africa 
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Wie ЖШ it seems to me, practically all the Asiatic пи | 
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