1 86 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



271. Golden Plover. 



Ckaradnus apncarius Linn. 1758. 



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

 spring of 1871, 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.) 



. 2*72. American Golden Plover. 



Charadrius dominicus Mull. 1776. 



Somewhat rare in Greenland, but possibly breeds there as it 

 does in considerable abundance on swampy places in the Parry 

 Islands. {Arct. Man.) A common autumn migrant in Newfound- 

 land, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Que- 

 bec and Ontario. It is rarely seen in the spring and we have no 

 account of its breeding 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 Labra- 

 dor 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 south-westward around the 

 whole northern coast of Alaska, where it seems to meet the Siberian 

 form. It is said to breed in northern British Columbia, and the 

 specimens taken, although not referable, according to Mr. S. N. 

 Rhoads, to C.fulvus,^x& darker underneath than eastern specimens. 



Breeding Notes. — The breeding quarters of this well-known 

 bird are the Barren Grounds and the coasts and islands of the 

 Arctic Sea. It hatches early in June, and retires southward in 

 August. {Richardson.) This beautiful species is very numerous 

 in the Barren Grounds from the outskirts of the forest to the 

 shores of the Polar Sea. The nests were found to be precisely 

 similar to those of C. squatarola. They were also as difficult to 

 detect, and for the same reason, a harmonizing resemblance of 

 the egg markings to the surrounding soil and a timeous depar- 

 ture of the female bird from her nest. I find 170 nests recorded 

 in my notes. Except when there was reason to believe that the 



