CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. IQJ 



i^Q. Mongolian Plover. 



CEgialitismongola (Pall.) Swinh. 1870, 



This handsome addition to the Plovers of North America was 

 nade by the captain of the ship Plover, during his visit to Kotze- 

 3ue Sound, in the summer of 1849, when he secured two speci- 

 mens upon Choris Peninsula. It is a common summer resident 

 3n the Commander Islands where it was found breeding by 

 stejenger. (Nelson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nests of this bird were found by Stejenger 

 ^arly in June. A nest was found on June 4th and contained three 

 ;ggs. It was in a hollow between the stems of four specimens of 

 Angelica archangelica and lined with dry fragments of leaves and 

 stems of the same plant. 



280. Wilson's Plover. 



GEgicditis wilsonia (Ord) Bonap. 1838. 

 Casual north to Nova Scotia. {A. 0. U. List.') 



281. Mountain Plover. 



CEgialitis montana (Towns.) Cass. 1858. 



Chiefly the plains, from Central Kansas to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, north to the British Boundary, breeding from Kansas 

 northward. {A. 0. U. List) Dr. Elliott Coues found this species 

 at the mouth of Frenchman River and westward to near the 

 Sweet-Grass Hills in July, 1874. In June, 1895, the writer was 

 on Frenchman River, Assa., for many miles and did not see a 

 trace of the bird so that lat. 49*^ must be close to its northern 

 limit. 



Family XXIII. APHRIZID.ffi. Surf-Birds and Turnstones. 

 C. APHRIZA Audubon, 1839. 



282. Surf Bird. 



Aphriza virgata (Gmel) Gray. 1847. 



Four specimens of this bird were taken in the vicinity of Sitka 

 by Bischoff. It is a wide-spread Pacific species, occurring only 



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