CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. l8S 



Family XXII. CHARADRIID^ffil. Plovers. 

 XCVIII. VANELLUS Brisson. 1760. 



269. Lapwing. 



Vanellus vanellus (Linn.) Licht. I854. 



One obtained 7 th January, 1820, near Fiskenaes, Greenland ; a 

 second received at the Museum in Copenhagen from Julianehaab 

 in i^/^y. (^Arct. Man.) On the islands in Norton Sound, Alaska. 

 {A. 0. U. List). 



XCIX. CHARADRIUS LiNN^us. 1758. 



270. Black-bellied Plover. 



Charadrius sqimtarolai^i^^^ Naum. 1834. 



Rare in Greenland, but found in both Inspectorates ; said to 

 breed on Melville Peninsula. {Arct. Man) A common autumn 

 migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. A 

 migrant in Quebec and Ontario in both spring and fall. Reversing 

 its line of migration this bird appears in Manitoba, Assiniboia and 

 Alberta in spring, and has been killed by Dippie at Reaburn, 

 Manitoba, as late as June ist. On Hudson Bay it is common, 

 and extends its range thence westward 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 Point, 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.) 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Three specimens ; one purchased with the Holman collection ; 

 another taken on Toronto Island by Mr. S. Herring, and a third 

 at Edmonton, Alberta, in May, 1897, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



