AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN, ETC. 



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67. CHARADRIUS DOMINICUS FULVUS, Om. 



KOLEA. (LESSER GOLDEN PLOVER.) 



Charadrius fulvus, antea, Part I. p. 11 (1893), 



Charadrius dominions (partim), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. pp. 195-208 (1896). 



Charadrius dominicus fulvus of Ridgway, Coues, Stejneger, A. O. U. Check-list, Hartert, and others. 



Palmeii sent one specimen, shot on Niihau on July 27th, 1893, and a large series from 

 Kauai, shot in December, January, February, March, and April. He writes that these birds 

 leave the islands by the end of April and beginning of May. 



Henshaw (' Auk,' xvii. p. 205) says that this Plover is well known to leave Hawaii in 

 immense numbers, and to return in August. Henshaw further writes : — " It is of interest to 

 note that by no means all the Kolea, Akekeke (Arenaria interpres), and Ulili [Reteractitis 

 incanus) leave the islands in spring. Thousands of the two former species remain all the 

 summer in the uplands, and the Ulili is by no means uncommon along the shore. I have 

 examined numbers of such loiterers and find them, without exception, to be young birds, 

 apparently birds of the year, probably too immature to feel the mating impulse." 



Professor Schauinsland collected many specimens on Laysan from the middle of July to 

 September. 



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