80 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
southern limit of the breeding range south to Beluchistan and north- 
ern Africa. This plover has been taken as a summer visitor to the 
east coast of Greenland (Helms), and at. several places on the west 
coast from the southern end to Christianshaab about 69° latitude 
(Winge). It has not yet been found breeding in Greenland,’ though 
it has been taken there in midsummer (Helms). 
Golden Plover. Charadrius dominicus Mull. 
Breeding range.—The summer home of the golden plover extends 
from Whale Point at the northwest corner of Hudson Bay (Eifrig), 
west across the barren grounds to the mouth of the Anderson River 
(MacFarlane), and thence along the barren grounds of the coast of 
Alaska to Kotzebue Sound (Grinnell). It extends north in Franklin 
to include the islands, at least as far as latitude 77°. The bird is 
known to breed commonly on Banks Island (Armstrong), Prince 
Albert Island (Armstrong), Melville Island (Parry), and theislands 
at the north end of Wellington Channel (Belcher), and east to the 
eastern coast of Melville Peninsula (Parry). It probably does not 
breed in Greenland, though it occurs not uncommonly on the west 
coast to about latitude 73° (Walker). There are somewhat doubtful 
records of the species having been seen August 7, 1881, at Cape Baird, 
Lady Franklin Bay, 81° 30’ N. (Greely), and on July. 12, 1872, at 
Thank God Harbor, Greenland, 81° 40’ (Davis). As’ the belt ‘of 
tundra along the north coast of Alaska is comparatively narrow, the 
principal breeding grounds of the golden ‘plover are between the 
mouth of the Mackenzie River and the Gulf of Boothia, north of the 
Arctic Circle. 
Winter range.—The species ranges south on the Atlantic coast to 
Bahia Blanca, central Argentina (Barrows), and the center of abun- 
dance during the winter season is the pampas of Argentina (Sclater 
and Hudson) and Uruguay (Aplin), between the parallels of 34° and 
36° S. Individuals remain during the winter as far north as Rio 
Janeiro, Brazil (Hapgood), on the coast and to Cuyaba, Matto Grosso 
(Pelzeln), in the interior. There is one record of the occurrence of 
the species (probably casual) in January at Nauta in northeastern 
Peru (Sharpe). The golden plover does not winter in the Lesser 
Antilles nor in that part of northeastern South America where it is 
most abundant in migration. It has been recorded as wintering at 
several places north of South America, but probably such of these: 
records as are not errors represent accidental or unusual occurrences. 
Migration range—From the breeding grounds the golden plover 
go south and southeast to Labrador; then cross the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence and its islands to Nova Scotia, and from the southern coast of 
the latter fly directly across the ocean to the Lesser Antilles and the 
coast of northeastern South America. Sometimes when caught by a 
storm during this flight they seek the nearest: land, appearing not 
