GOLDEN PLOVER. 83 
Nebraska, and Saskatchewan, and apparently is absent in spring 
from the whole region-west of the Rocky Mountains. a 
Eggs were collected on the lower Anderson River, Mackenzie, 
June 24, 1863, June 22, 1864, and June 16, 1865 (MacFarlane); at 
Point Barrow, Alaska, June 22, 1882, and June 23, 1883 (Murdoch). 
Fall migration.—The old birds start south in July, and those that 
are to make the flight from Nova Scotia to the Lesser Antilles occupy 
about a month in the trip from the breeding grounds to the southern 
coast of Nova Scotia. If fair weather. prevails, the flocks-of golden 
plover pass by the New England coast far out at sea, but severe 
storms are frequent at this season, and. the birds are often driven to 
land. The average for twenty-eight years of the date of arrival of 
these storm-driven migrants at’ Nantucket, Mass., is August 25, 
earliest August 12, 1898 (Mackay); a still earlier date is August 7, 
1852, at Plymouth, Mass. (Browne). Five times in these twenty- 
eight. years birds were seen before August 20 (Mackay). The rule 
on Long Island is to expect the plover with the first storm occurring 
after August 28 (Lawrence). The-first flocks are noted in the Ber- 
mudas during the last ten days of August (Reid), and about the same 
time the species arrives in the Lesser Antilles (Lawrence) and even on 
the coast of British Guiana (Quelch). A few golden plover reach 
Argentina the last week in August (Sclater and Hudson) and the 
species has been taken in Bolivia in August (Allen), but these early 
couriers are exceptional, and the main flocks arrive in September. 
On the west side of Baffin Bay in 1820 the last was seen September 
3 (Parry); in Nova Scotia the species sometimes remains until 
October (McKinlay). The average date of the last one seen at 
Nantucket, Mass., for ten years previous to 1890 is October 2, 
latest October 22, 1878 (Mackay); for the years since 1890 the 
average date of the last seen is September 23 (Mackay). Near New- 
port, R. I., a market hunter shot 386 golden plover during 1867 to 
1874; the dates ranged from August 14, 1868, to October 24, 1874 
(Sturtevant). On Long Island the dates of the earliest and latest 
recorded observations of the species are August 15 and November 10 
(Chapman). In the Bermudas and the Lesser Antilles most, of the 
birds leave in October, though some stragglers may be noted in 
November. . ‘ “2 
In the interior of New England the golden plover is rare in fall, 
though at times it is quite common on Lake Champlain. Throughout 
New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey it is usually very rare, but 
in 1880 and in several other years it has been common in those States. 
It has been seen at Erie, Pa., on dates ranging from August 20, 1896, 
to November 18, 1900 (Todd). South of New Jersey on the Atlantic 
coast, also in the Bahamas, the golden plover is almost unknown, 
and it is not common anywhere in the Greater Antilles west of St. 
Croix. 
