90 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Eggs have been taken at Grand Manan, New Brunswick, June 21, 
1875 (Cheney); James Bay, June 18,.1896 (Macoun); Cape Fuller- 
ton, June 28, 1904 (Eifrig); Fort Anderson, June 11, 1863 (Mac- 
Farlane); Fort Yukon, Alaska, June 2, 1862 (Lockhart) ; Lake 
Marsh, Yukon, just hatched, July 2, 1899 (Bishop).'» 
Fall migration —At one of the most southern breeding places, 
near York Factory, Keewatin, in 1900, the most advanced: young 
were still in the downy stage July 10 (Preble), and yet by this time 
the species is already in full fall migration, and the earliest individuals 
have appeared several hundred miles south of the breeding range: 
Toronto, Ontario, July 5, 1890 (Fleming); Rhode Island, July 6 
(Howe and Sturtevant); Coronado de Terraba, Costa Rica, July 3, 
1907 (Carriker); Margarita Island, off the coast of Venezuela, July 
7, 1895 (Robinson). The regular fall migration is about a month 
later: Sitka, Alaska, common after July 25, 1896 (Grinnell); Prince 
Edward Island, average of three years August 13 (Bain); Long 
Island, New York, average of seven years August 6, earliest July 17, 
1905 (Latham); Grenada, West Indies, August 24, 1881 (Wells); 
Santa Catarina, Brazil, August 4 (Sharpe). me 
Though most semipalmated plover migrate early, a few stay until 
freezing weather: Ottawa, Ontario, average of five years September 
19, latest September 29, 1885 (White); Prince of Wales Sound, 
Ungava, latest September 25, 1886 (Payne); Prince Edward Island, 
average of three years, October.13 (Bain); Erie, Pa., rare after Octo-. 
ber 1, latest November 2, 1901 (Todd); Point Pelee, Ontario, October 
29, 1905 (Taverner and Swales); Grinnell, Iowa, October 22, 1886 
(Jones); Los Angeles County, Calif., October 17, 1894 (Grinnell). 
Ringed Plover. yialitis hiaticula (Linn.). 
Both coasts of Greenland are included in the breeding range of 
the ringed plover, from the southern end to Sabine Island (Scoresby) 
on the east coast and to McCormick Bay (Schalow) on the west. 
Across Smith Sound from this latter place and one. degree farther 
north, at Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Island, latitude 78° 48’ (Feilden) 
is the farthest north the species has, been found in the Western Hemi- 
sphere, though north of Europe it has been taken at 83° latitude. 
On the American side it breeds south to Cumberland Sound (Kumlien); 
also south to central Europe and Turkestan, and east to the New 
Siberian Islands, and occurs casually east to the Chuckchi Peninsula. 
The winter is spent from the shores of the Mediterranean to southern 
Africa and rarely to northwestern India. It has wandered to Chile 
(Sharpe), and to Barbados, September 10, 1888 (Feilden). The 
first arrived at Cumberland Sound in 1878 about the middle of June 
(Kumlien). 7 
Little Ringed Plover. yialitis dubia (Scop.). 
The claim of the little ringed plover to a place among North American 
birds is rather slight. A specimen is supposed to have been taken on 
