82 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



United States and of passage to the summer home can be gathered 

 from the following dates of arrival: Boerne, Tex., March 9, 1880 

 (Brown); Indianola, Tex., March 15, 1856 (Cassin); Gainesville, 

 Tex., March 17, 1885 (Ragsdale); Caddo, Okla., March 12, 1884 

 (Gooke); near New Orleans, La., March 24, 1894 (Allison), April 2, 

 1881 (Langdon); Fayetteville, Ark., abundant March 20-31, 1883 

 (Harvey); central Missouri, average April 13, earliest April 11, 1903 

 (Bryant); Badger, Nebr., average April 8, earliest April 5, 1903 

 (Colt); Lebanon, 111., March 17, 1876 (Jones); Tampico, 111., average 

 April 10, earliest March 31, 1885 (Brown); Terre Haute, Ind., March 

 23, 1888 (Evermann); Chicago, 111., average April 16, earliest March 

 30, 1899 (Gault); central Iowa, average April 19, earliest April 12, 

 1883 (Williams); Heron Lake, Minnesota, average May 1 (Miller); 

 central South Dakota, average April 30, earliest April 25, 1888 

 (Bishop); Larimore, N. Dak., average May 5, earliest May 2, 1895 

 (Eastgate) ; Aweme, Manitoba, average May 4, earliest April 23, 1905 

 (Criddle) ; Indian Head, Saskatchewan, May 9, 1904 (Lang) ; Fort 

 Simpson, Mackenzie, May 26, 1860 (Ross), May 19, 1904 (Preble); 

 Fort Reliance, Yukon, May 13 (Nelson); Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 latitude 71° N., May 21, 1882 (Murdoch), May 24, 1883 (Murdoch), 

 June 1, 1898 (Stone). The dates of arrival in the province of Frank- 

 lin are: Igloolik, 69°, June 14, 1823 (Parry); Boothia Felix, 70°, 

 June 4, 1830 (Ross), June 22, 1831 (Ross); Prince of Wales Strait, 

 73°, June 7, 1851 (Armstrong); Bay of Mercy, 74°, June 3, 1852 

 (Armstrong); Winter Harbor, 75°, June 2, 1820 (Parry); near Wel- 

 lington Channel, 77°, June 2, 1853 (Belcher). 



The latest dates recorded in the southern part of the winter range 

 are March 12 (Aplin) and March 19 (Barrows); in the northern part 

 of the winter home the species remains until April (Sclater and 

 Salvin) ; at Chicago the average date of the last one seen is April 30, 

 and the latest May 9, 1895 (Blackwelder) . Some other late dates 

 are: Near New Orleans, La., June 10, 1907 (Kopman); Lebanon, 

 Ind., May 10, 1894 (Beasley); Lawrence, Kans., May 8, 1906 (Wet- 

 more); White, S. Dak., May 27, 1889 (Partch); Aweme, Manitoba, 

 average May 23, latest May 29, 1896 (Criddle); Fort Chipewyan, 

 Alberta, June 1, 1893 (Russell). South of the latitude of Chicago 

 the bulk of the spring shooting of golden plover is in April; from Iowa 

 northward to Canada the spring shooting occurs chiefly during the 

 first half of May. 



During the spring migration the golden plover is almost entirely 

 absent from the Atlantic coast. There are three spring records for 

 Massachusetts (Mackay) and a few for Long Island (Giraud), the last 

 of them many years ago. Probably most of the other scattered 

 spring records east of the Alleghenies are errors of identification. 

 The species is not common at any time of the year west of Texas, 



