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The numbers were not greatly diminished so long as this region was 

 used for stock purposes, but recently the birds have rapidly decreased. 

 At the present time the species breeds south to southern Oregon 

 (Merrill); northern Utah (Ridgway); northern Colorado (Rockwell), 

 central Oklahoma (Merrill), southern Missouri (Prior), southern 

 Indiana (Butler), northern Virginia (Grinnan) and central Maryland 

 (Miller). The summer range extends north to southern Maine 

 (Norton), southern Ontario (Renfrew; Clarke), and southern Michi- 

 gan (Wood). Then it bends far to the northward through central 

 Y/isconsin (Kumlien and Hollister) to central Keewatin (Cape Eskimo ; 

 Preble), southern Mackenzie (Fort Smith; Preble), northern Yukon 

 (M'Dougall), and to the Kowak River in northwestern Alaska 

 (Townsend). Stragglers are not uncommon in the Maritime Prov- 

 inces and have occurred in Newfoundland (Reeks) and to Godbout, 

 Quebec (Merriam) . The species is not common east of Michigan nor 

 west of the Rocky Mountains. 



Winter range. — The principal winter home is in Argentina (Sclater 

 and Hudson) and probably no upland plovers occur at this season 

 north of the pampas of South America. 



Migration range. — In fall this species passes through the Greater 

 and the Lesser Antilles (Feilden), but in the Bahamas (Cory), 

 Jamaica (March), and Porto Rico (Gundlach), it is so much rarer than 

 farther east as to indicate that some individuals reach the Lesser 

 Antilles by direct flight across the ocean. It migrates also through 

 the Gulf States and west to Sulphur Spring, Ariz. (Henshaw), west- 

 ern Mexico (Durango; Nelson), and locally in Central America and 

 the northern parts of South America. 



There seem to be no spring records of migration in the West Indies 

 east of Cuba, indicating that the individuals that go south through 

 the Lesser Antilles return by way of Central America. Nor in spring 

 migration is the species recorded west of central Mexico or west of the 

 Rocky Mountains south of Utah. The only record for California is 

 the single bird taken by Vernon Bailey of the Biological Survey at 

 Tule Lake, August 8, 1896. 



Spring migration. — The upland plover arrives in Louisiana on the 

 average earlier than in either Florida or Texas. This would seem 

 to prove that it reaches Louisiana by direct flight across the gulf. 

 The average date of arrival in southern Louisiana is March 14, 

 while the date of arrival at the same latitude in Texas is March 28, 

 and in Florida is early April. The earliest dates are: Bonham, Tex., 

 March 5, 1887 (Peters); New Orleans, La., March 9, 1895 (Beyer); 

 and Tallahassee, Fla., March 25, 1901 (Williams). Other dates of 

 arrival on the Atlantic slope are: Raleigh, N. C, average April 7, 

 earliest March 28, 1896 (Brimley); Washington, D. C, March 21, 

 1896 (Richmond); Holland Patent, N. Y., average April 20, earliest 

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