RANGE AND MIGRATIONS. 
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Hearne writes: “In the pools saw swan and geese in a moult¬ 
ing state, and on the marshes some curlew and plovers.” 
Alex. Fisher, in giving an account of Parry’s first voyage, 
1819-20, saw at Baffin's Bay, “Red phalarope and ring plo¬ 
ver,” and at Winter Harbor, lat. 74 47 Ion. 110.48, ‘Shot a 
golden plover,” and July 16, he adds: “A few p'armigan, 
plover, sauderlings and snow buntings were all the land birds 
that were seen.” Again, at the Melville Islands, June 12, 
“saw several golden plover.” Sir J. Richardson while at 
Wolloston Land wrote as follows: “On the first of June, 
bees, sandpipers, long-tailed ducks, caccawees, riders and 
king ducks and northern divers were seen.” .Again, May 15, 
“The yellow warblers feed on the alpine arbutus as did 
likewise the golden plover, whose stomachs also contained 
the juicy fruit of the Empetrum nigrum. The Eskimo cur¬ 
lew at this time feed on large ants.” McClure, while the 
“Investigator” was packed in the ice at Prince of Wales 
Straits, lat. 70 deg., after makingseveral excursions reported 
the following: “The plover and phalaropes and buntings 
here r^ar their young untroubled by man around the margins 
of petty laki s.” Dr. Kane speaks of seeing snipe at Renssa- 
laer Bay, June 16,1851, also at Cornwallis Island, September 
4,1850. Dr. Hayes saw the same species at Port Foulke, 
June 8, 1861. Mr. C. B. Cory, author of the charming little 
volume entitled, “A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands,” in¬ 
forms us he has the eggs of the golden plover taken at the 
Northern extremity of Hudsons Bay, and that they are com¬ 
mon there. 
The above references will, we think, be sufficient to satisfy 
the average mind that the birds do reach very high latitudes 
in conside able numbers, and that they breed there. Tin 
enervating duty of nidifying, laying, incubating and render¬ 
ing ULto the juvenile specimens such brief care and protec¬ 
tion as the mothers of prcecoces might be expected to bestow, 
seems to generate a desire for a journey to some fashionable 
watering place. Possibly the food they find so abundant, 
earlier, around the lakes or marshes, now gives out, or their 
tastes change and they hanker after marine worms, or the 
