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found it common at Lesser Slave lake, Atha., September 3rd, 1903. 

 On Hudson bay it is common, and extends its range thence westr 

 ward, including the whole Arctic coast and all northern Alaska and 

 down the Pacific coast to the southern boundary of British Columbia. 



Breeding Notes. — Our first introduction to this handsome and 

 somewhat rare Arctic plover was on Island poiilt, in Franklin bay, 

 on July 4th, 1864. The nest contained four eggs and was composed 

 of a small quantity of withered grass, placed in a depression on the 

 side or face of a very gentle eminence. Both parents were seen and 

 the male shot. On the following day, another nest with four eggs 

 was discovered, and a third also met with. In 1865, seven nests 

 were gathered by our party in the same quarter. (Macfarlane.) 



CXVII. CHARADRIUS Linn^us. 1758- 



271. Golden Plover. 



Charadrius apricarius Linn. 1758. 



One specimen, taken in summer plumage, was shot in the spring 

 of 1 87 1, on the Noursoak peninsula; and believed by Dr. Finch to 

 breed in East Greenland. {Arct. Man.) The Director of the colony 

 of Frederickshaab reports taking a young bird of this species in 

 August, 1887. (Hagerup.) 



272. American Golden Plover. 



Charadrius dominicus Mull. 1776. 



Somewhat rare in Greenland, but possibly breeds there as it does 

 in considerable abundance on swampy places on the Parry islands. 

 fArct. Man.) A common autumn migrant in Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. 

 It is rarely seen in the, spring, and we have no account of its breed- 

 ing in any of these provinces. In Manitoba and the other prairie 

 provinces it is both a spring and autumn migrant, and leaves for the 

 north the last week in May, returning about the middle of August. 

 It is not known to breed in Labrador, but doubtless does along the 

 western coasts of Hudson bay. Its breeding grounds are from 

 Hudson bay westward, including the Barren Grounds and the coasts 

 •of the Arctic sea, to the north of the Mackenzie, Point Barrow and 

 southwestward around the whole northern coast of Alaska, where 



