90 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



Eggs have been taken at Grand Manan, New Brunswick, June 21, 

 1875 (Cheney); James Bay, June 18, 1896 (Macoun); Cape Fuller- 

 ton, June 28, 1904 (Eifrig); Fort Anderson, June 11, 1863 (Mac- 

 Farlane); Fort Yukon, Alaska, June 2, 1862 (Lockhart); Lake 

 Marsh, Yukon, just hatched, July 2, 1899 (Bishop). 



Fall migration. — At one of the most southern breeding places, 

 near York Factory, Keewatin, in 1900, the most advanced young 

 were still in the downy stage July 10 (Preble), and yet by this time 

 the species is already in full fall migration, and the earliest individuals 

 have appeared several hundred miles south of the breeding range: 

 Toronto, Ontario, July 5, 1890 (Fleming); Rhode Island, July 6 

 (Howe and Sturtevant); Coronado de Terraba, Costa Eica, July 3, 

 1907 (Carriker); Margarita Island, off the coast of Venezuela, July 

 7, 1895 (Robinson). The regular fall migration is about a month 

 later: Sitka, Alaska, common after July 25, 1896 (Grinnell); Prince 

 Edward Island, average of three years August 13 (Bain); Long 

 Island, New York, average of seven years August 6, earliest July 17, 

 1905 (Latham); Grenada, West Indies, August 24, 1881 (Wells); 

 Santa. Catarina, Brazil, August 4 (Sharpe). 



Though most semipalmated plover migrate early, a few stay until 

 freezing weather: Ottawa, Ontario, average of five years September 

 19, latest September 29, 1885 (White); Prince of Wales Sound, 

 Ungava, latest September 25, 1886 (Payne); Prince Edward Island, 

 average of three years, October 13 (Bain); Erie, Pa., rare after Octo- 

 ber 1, latest November 2, 1901 (Todd); Point Pelee, Ontario, October 

 29, 1905 (Taverner and Swales); Grinnell, Iowa, October 22, 1886 

 (Jones); Los Angeles County, Calif., October 17, 1894 (Grinnell). 



Ringed Plover. Mgialitis Maticula (Linn.). 

 Both coasts of Greenland are included in the breeding range of 

 the ringed plover, from the southern end to Sabine Island (Scoresby) 

 on the east coast and to McCormick Bay (Schalow) on the west. 

 Across Smith Sound from this latter place and one degree farther 

 north, at Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Island, latitude 78° 48' (Feilden) 

 is the farthest north the species has been found in the Western Hemi- 

 sphere, though north of Europe it has been taken at 83° latitude. 

 On the American side it breeds south to Cumberland Sound (Kumlien) ; 

 also south to central Europe and Turkestan, and east to the New 

 Siberian Islands, and occurs casually east to the Chuckchi Peninsula. 

 The winter is spent from the shores of the Mediterranean to southern 

 Africa and rarely to northwestern India. It has wandered to Chile 

 (Sharpe), and to Barbados, September 10, 1888 (Feilden). The 

 first arrived at Cumberland Sound in 1878 about the middle of June 

 (Kumlien). 



Little Ringed Plover. JEgialitis dubia (Scop.). 



The claim of the little ringed plover to a place among North American 

 birds is rather slight. A specimen is supposed to have been taken on 



