80 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



southern limit of the breeding range south to Beluchistan and north- 

 ern Africa. This plover has been taken as a summer visitor to the 

 east coast of Greenland (Helms), and at several places on the west 

 coast from the southern £nd to Christianshaab about 69° latitude 

 (Winge) . It has not yet been found breeding in Greenland, though 

 it has been taken there in midsummer (Helms). 



Golden Plover. Charadrius dominicus Mull. 



Breeding range. — The summer home of the golden plover extends 

 from Whale Point at the northwest corner of Hudson Bay (Eifrig), 

 west across the barren grounds to the mouth of the Anderson River 

 (MacFarlane) , and thence along the barren grounds of the coast of 

 Alaska to Kotzebue Sound (Grinnell) . It extends north in Franklin 

 to include the islands, at least as far as latitude 77°. The bird is 

 known to breed commonly on Banks Island (Armstrong), Prince 

 Albert Island (Armstrong), Melville Island (Parry), and the islands 

 at the north end of Wellington Channel (Belcher), and east to the 

 eastern coast of Melville Peninsula (Parry). It probably does not 

 breed in Greenland, though it occurs not uncommonly on the west 

 coast to about latitude 73° (Walker). There are somewhat doubtful 

 records of the species having been seen August 7, 1881, at Cape Baird, 

 Lady Franklin Bay, 81° 30' N. (Greely), and on July 12, 1872, at 

 Thank God Harbor, Greenland, 81° 40' (Davis). As the belt of 

 tundra along the north coast of Alaska is comparatively narrow, the 

 principal breeding grounds of the golden plover are between the 

 mouth of the Mackenzie River and the Gulf of Boothia, north of the 

 Arctic Circle. 



Winter range. — The species ranges south on the Atlantic coast to 

 Bahia Blanca, central Argentina (Barrows), and the center of abun- 

 dance during the winter season is. the pampas of Argentina (Sclater 

 and Hudson) and Uruguay (Apiin), between the parallels of 34° and 

 36° S. Individuals remain during the winter as far north as Rio 

 Janeiro, Brazil (Hapgood) , on the coast and to Cuy aba, Matto Grosso 

 (Pelzeln), in the interior. There is one record of the occurrence of 

 the species (probably casual) in January at Nauta in northeastern 

 Peru (Sharpe). The golden plover does not winter in the Lesser 

 Antilles nor in that part of northeastern South America where it is 

 most abundant in migration. It has been recorded as wintering at 

 several places north of South America, but probably such of these 

 records as are not errors represent accidental or unusual occurrences. 



Migration range.— From the breeding grounds the golden plover 

 go south and southeast to Labrador; then cross the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence and its islands to Nova Scotia, and from the southern coast of 

 the latter fly directly across the ocean to the Lesser Antilles and the 

 coast of northeastern South America. Sometimes when caught by a 

 storm during this flight they seek the nearest land, appearing not 



