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of the eastern golden plover extends through Arctic America west to 
the northern coast of Alaska, where in the vicinity of Point Barrow it 
meets the nesting grounds of the Pacific form, which is really an Asiatic 
subspecies. It breeds chiefly in the Arctic coast region of Siberia 
and merely overflows onto the Alaskan coast, some of the birds proba- 
bly migrating south along the coast of Asia to winter quarters in 
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WSS BREEDING RANGE 
YMA WINTER HOME 
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FIGURE 25.—Breeding and wintering ranges of the western tanager. See figure 26 for the spring route 
taken by the birds breeding in the northern part of the range. 
Japan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, including 
the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesas Islands, and the Low Archi- 
pelago. Golden plovers in migration have been observed at sea on a 
line that apparently extends from these islands to the Aleutians, and 
it therefore appears certain that at least some of the Alaskan birds 
make a nonstop flight across a landless sea from Alaska to Hawaii. 
While it would seem incredible that any birds could lay a course so 
