82 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
United States and of passage to the summer home can be gathered 
from the following dates of arrival: Boerne, Tex.,. March 9, .1889 
(Brown); Indianola, Tex., March 15, 1856: (Cassin) ;’ Gainesville, 
Tex., March 17, 1885 (Ragsdale); Caddo, Okla., March 12,. 1884 
(Cooke); near. New Orleans, La., March 24, 1894 (Allison), April 2, 
1881 (Langdon); Fayetteville, Ark.,; abundant March 20-31, 1883 
(Harvey); central Missouri, average ‘April 13, earliest April 11, 1903 
(Bryant); Badger, Nebr., average April 8, earliest April 5, 1903 
(Colt); Lebanon, Ill., March 17, 1876 (Jones); Tampico, IIl., average 
April 10, sarliont March 31, 1885 (Brown) ; Terre Haute, Tind.,-Maych 
23, 1888 (Evermann); Chicago, Ill., average April 16, earliest March 
30, 1899 (Gault); central Iowa; average April 19, earliest April 12, 
1883 (Williams); Heron Lake, Minnesota,' average May 1 (Miller) ; 
central South Dakota, average’ April 30, earliest April 25, 1888 
(Bishop); Larimore, N. Dak., average May 5, earliest)May 2, 1895 
(Kastgate); Aweme, Menitoba, average May 4, earliest April 23, 1905 
(Criddle); Indian Head, Saskatchewan, May 9, 1904. Hoang Fort 
Simpson, Mackenzie, May 26,:1860 (Ross), May 19, 1904 (Preble); 
Fort Reliance, Yukon, May 13 (Nelson);Point Barrow, Alaska, 
latitude.71° N., May 21, 1882 (Murdoch), May 24, 1883 (Murdoch), 
June 1, 1898 (Stone). The dates of arrival in the province of Frank- 
lin are: Igloolik, 69°, June 14, 1823 (Parry); Boothia Felix, 70°, 
June 4, 1830 (Ross), June 22, 1831 (Ross); Prince of Wales Strait, 
73°, June 7, 1851 (Armstrong); Bay of Mercy, 74°, June 3, 1852 
(Armstrong); Winter Harbor, 75°, June 2, 1820 ere » near Wel- 
lington Channel, 77°, June 2, 1853: (Belcher). an 
The latest dates! recorded in the southern part of the winter range 
are March 12 (Aplin) and March 19 (Barrows); in the northern part 
of the winter home the species remains until April (Sclater’ and 
Salvin); at Chicago the average date of the last one seen is April 30, 
and the latest: May 9,. 1895 (Blackwelder).: Some. other late dates 
are: Near New: Orleans, La., June 10, 1907 (Kopman); Lebanon, 
Ind., May 10, 1894 (Beasley); Lawrence, Kans., May 8, 1906 (Wet- 
more); White, 8. Dak., May 27, 1889 (Partch); Aweme, Manitoba; 
average May, 23,. latest May 29, 1896 (Criddle); Fort Chipewyan, 
Alberta, June 1, 1893 (Russell). South of the. latitude of Chicago 
the bulk of the spring shooting of golden plover is in April; from Iowa 
northward to Canada the spring. snoorine: occurs chiefly during the 
first half of May. 
During the spring migration the golden. plover is almost entirely 
absent from the Atlantic coast. There are three spring records for 
‘Massachusetts (Mackay) and a few for Long Island (Giraud), the last 
of them many years ago. Probably most of the other scattered 
spring records east of the Alleghenies are errors of identification. 
The species is not common at any time of the year west of Texas, 
