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August 3 (Scott and Worthington) . They have been seen in Jamaica 

 in June (Field) , and even off the coast of Venezuela they were common 

 June 21-27, 1892 (Hartert). The last of the regular migrants do not 

 leave the coast of Massachusetts until June — average June 6, latest 

 June 15, 1886 (Cahoon); Western Egg Rock, Maine, June 24, 1895 

 (Knight); Toronto, Ontario, June 2 (Fleming); Corpus Christi, Tex., 

 July 1, 1887 (Sennett). 



Eggs were taken at Franklin Bay, Mackenzie, July 4, 1864, and 

 July 8, 1865 (MacFarlane), but in each case the eggs were already 

 partly incubated. 



Fall migration. — The southward movement begins early in July, 

 bringing a few individuals into the United States the latter part of 

 that month — eastern Massachusetts, July 8 (Howe and Allen); 

 Toronto, Ontario, July 23, 1890 (Fleming) — but the regular migra- 

 tion occurs in August: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, average August 17, 

 earliest August 6 (Mackay) ; Long Island, New York, average August 

 6, earliest July 1, 1905 (Kobbe) ; Erie, Pa., August 1, 1890 (Todd); 

 southern Wisconsin, August 10, 1872 (Kumlien and Hollister); 

 southern British Columbia, August 15, 1903 (Brooks). The last were 

 seen at Winter Island on the coast of Melville Peninsula August 17, 

 1821 (Greely), and the first flocks came along the Labrador coast 

 August 15, 1860 (Coues). The species was unusually abundant on 

 Prince Edward Island in 1892 from August 22 to September 14 

 (Mackay). Some dates of the last seen are: Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 August 20, 1897 (Stone); Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie, September 5, 

 1903 (Preble); St. Michael, Alaska, September 16, 1899 (Bishop); 

 southern British Columbia, October 23, 1888 (Brooks); Fort Collins, 

 Colo., October 28, 1893 (Cooke); Lincoln, Nebr., October 21, 1899 

 (Wolcott) ; Ottawa, Ontario, average October 24, latest November 8, 

 1903 (White); Pictou, Nova Scotia, October 11, 1894 (Hickman); 

 Cape Cod, Massachusetts, average October 21, latest November 14, 

 1887 (Cahoon) — accidental in December, 1872 (Mackay); Erie, Pa., 

 November 10, 1894 (Todd) ; Long Island, New York, average October 

 15, latest November 7, 1905 (Latham). 



European Golden Plover. Charadrius apricarius Linn. 



The combined ranges of the three golden plovers complete the cir- 

 cumference of the globe in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle. In 

 general it may be said that apricarius breeds in northern Europe and 

 northwestern Siberia; dominions in North America; and fulvus in 

 eastern Siberia. The ranges of apricarius and dominicus meet on the 

 west coast of Greenland; dominicus and fulvus join ranges in western 

 Alaska; the dividing line in Siberia between fulvus and apricarius 

 has not yet been determined. 



The European golden plover breeds from Great Britain to western 

 Siberia and south to central Europe. It winters from about the 



