94 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



March 19, 1890 (Worthington) ; Cumberland Island, Georgia, March 

 18, 1902 (Helme)- Frogmore, S. C, March 26, 1886, and March 20, 

 -1888 (Hoxie); Port Macon, N. C, April 15, 1869 (Coues). The 

 species has wandered north on the coast several times to Long 

 Island (Dutcher), once to Connecticut (Purdie), once to Massachu- 

 setts (Coues) , and even to Nova Scotia (Goss) . The only record for 

 the Pacific coast of the United States is that of the single bird taken 

 June 29, 1894, at Pacific Beach, California (Ingersoll). 



Eggs have been taken at Sarasota Bay, Florida, April 8 (Moore) ; 

 coast of Georgia, April 29 (Bailey); Corpus Christi, Tex., April 25 

 (Chapman); Cobbs Island, Virginia, May 7 (Oates). 



[Rufous-nap ed Plover. Ochthodromus wilsonius rufinuchus ( Bidgw . ) . 

 The principal home of the subspecies rufous-naped plover is the Greater Antilles, 

 whence it spreads to the neighboring coasts of British Honduras and Guatemala; 

 probably also to Yucatan. It breeds also in northern South America on the coast 

 of Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana. While some individuals remain all the year 

 on the breeding grounds, others migrate a short distance to several of the islands of 

 the Lesser Antilles and to Brazil as far south as Bahia. It is probably this form that 

 occurs on the coast of Ecuador and Peru, but from lack of specimens this point is not 

 settled.] 



Mountain Plover. Podasocys montanus (Towns.). 

 Breeding range. — The mountain plover seems to be confined in 

 summer to the United States, but closely approaches the boundaries, 

 both north and south. In 1874 it was found breeding and not uncom- 

 mon on the Frenchman River in Montana (Coues), not far from the 

 Canadian boundary, and on Milk River, Montana (Coues), right at 

 the line, but so far has not been recorded anywhere in Canada. It 

 breeds south to northern New Mexico (Henshaw); east to north- 

 western Texas (Bailey), western Kansas (Fisher), and western 

 Nebraska (Bruner), west to Sun River, Montana (Dutcher), Fort 

 Bridger, Wyo. (Drexler), Del Norte, Colo. (Hill and Orth), and San 

 Miguel County, New Mexico (Mitchell). 



Winter range. — This species winters from northern California 

 (Cooper) , southern Arizona (Osgood) , and San Antonio, Tex. (Beck- 

 ham), south to Zacatecas, Mexico (Sharpe), and La Paz, Lower 

 California (Sharpe). It is one of the few species that winters far- 

 ther west than it breeds. 



Migration range. — The more eastern individuals of this species 

 probably follow the usual north and south migration route, keeping 

 to the plains east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, but some 

 of the more western individuals take a very peculiar course in migra- 

 tion. The species is a tolerably common migrant at Marysville in 

 northern California (Belding), arriving in November. Whence come 

 these November birds? The nearest point of the breeding range is 

 northwestern Montana in the vicinity of Great Falls (Williams). To 

 reach Marysville from Great Falls the plover must pass through 



