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84 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
While the greater number of golden plover migrate across the 
Atlantic, a few pass south in the fall through the interior of North 
America. The first arrival from the north noted near Fort Churchill, 
Keewatin, in 1900, was on August 4 (Preble). Other dates of fall 
arrival in the interior are: Moose Factory, Ontario, September 8, 1860 
(Drexler); Aweme, Manitoba, average September 9, earliest Augiat 
10, 1904 (Criddle) ; ‘Lincoln, Nebr. , September 22, 1900 (Wolcott); near 
Toronto, Ontario, August 31, 1891 (Nash), September 1, 1898 (Nash); 
Point Pelee, Ontario, September 15, 1905 (Swales), September 19, 
1906 (Taverner); Chicago, Ill., average September 12, earliest Sep- 
tember 10, 1898 (Gault); Bay St. Louis, Miss., September 26, 1899 
(Allison); San José, Costa Rica, October 20, 1890 (Cherrie). Prob- 
ably these Mississippi Valley fall birds are the ones that are fairly 
common in Peru from September to November (Sclater and Salvin) 
and that were noted.in October at Arica, Chile (MacFarlane).: 
The form of the golden plover that breeds on the northern and 
northwestern coasts of Alaska does not seem to migrate along the 
western coast of Alaska, but passes in general east to Mackenzie. A 
few individuals migrate southeast and occur in the fall as rare strag- 
lers on the Pacific slope: Sitka, Alaska, August 16, 1896 (Grinnell); 
Chilliwack, British Columbia, August 26, 1889 (Brooks); Port 
Townsend, Wash., September 9, 1897 (Fisher); Santa Cruz, Calif., 
October 22, 1888 (McGregor) ;’ San José del Cabo, Lower California, 
October 18, 1887 (Brewster). 
The golden plover does not remain late in the north. The last 
seen on the breeding grounds at Point Barrow, Alaska, were noted 
August 28, 1882 (Murdoch), and August 20, 1897 (Stone). Some 
other dates of late occurrence are: Great Bear Lake, September 6, 
1903 (Preble); Fort Simpson, September 10, 1860 (Ross) ; Edmonton, 
Alberta, September 23, 1894 (Loring); Indian Head, Saskatchewan, 
October 2, 1904 (Lang); Aweme, Manitoba, average October’ 14, 
latest October 16, 1901 (Criddle); near Fort Pierre, S. Dak. , October 
21, 1855 (Cassin) ; Fort Sherman, Idaho, abundant September 
15-20, 1896 (Merrill) ; Newcastle, Colo., Octéber 5, 1902 (Bishop); 
Lincoln, Nebr., November 14, 1899 (Wolcott) ; Lanesboro, Minn., 
November 2, 1889 (Hvoslef) ; eouthiers Towa, average October 27, 
latest November 9, 1895 (Currier); Chicago, IIl., average October 
11, latest Gebaber 28, 1895— (Blackwelder) ; English Lake,. Ind., 
November 9, 1891, Waveniben 15, 1892 (Butler) ; Ottawa, Ontario, 
October 31, 1906 (White); city of Quebec, Canada, November 10, 
1890 (Dionne): San José, Costa Rica, December 15, 1890 (Cherrie). 
The golden plover is one of the shorebirds that has diminished 
most markedly during the last twenty years. Formerly it was 
enormously abundant, and many are the accounts of the countless 
flocks that passed in an almost continuous stream across the Gulf of 
