RANGE AND MIGRATIONS. 15 
Hearne writes: “In the pools saw swan and geese in a moult 
Atex^he!^ °“ • ^ marSheS SOme curle w and plovers.” 
Alex. Fisher, m giving an account of Parry’s first vn™™ 
1819.20 saw at Baffin's Bay, “Red phalarope and nugll 
- e . r ’ aD< l at Winter Harbor, lat. 74.47 ion. 110.48 “Shot a 
golden plover,” and July 16, he adds: “A few ptarmigan 
p over, sanderhngs and snow buntings were all the land birds 
hat were seen.” Again, at the Melville Islands, June 12 
saw several golden plover.” Sir J. RiehardsoA while at 
Wolloston Land wrote as follows: “On the first of June 
bees sandpipers, long-tailed ducks, caecawees, eiders and 
mg ducks and northern divers were seen.” Again May 15 
.Jhe yellow warblers feed on the alpine arbutus as did 
i -ewne the golden plover, whose stomachs also contained 
e juicy fruit of the Empetrum nigrum. The Eskimo cur- 
ew at this time feed on large ants.” McClure, while the 
Investigator” was packed in the ice at Prince of Wales 
fetraits lat 70 deg., after making several excursions reported 
he following: “The plover and phalaropes and bunUngs 
here rear their young untroubled by man around the margifs 
laerBfy^e 16 * See “S -Pe at ZT 
4 1850 Dr H 6 ’ 85 ’ a 80 at CornwaIlis Mand, September 
June 8 '1861 ’ ¥ r TV “ «*me 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 
m“e eXtremity ° f HUdS0C8 Bar ’ and that «“* ■» com! 
The above references will, we think, be sufficient to satisfy 
the average mind that the birds do reach very high latitude! 
in considerable numbers, and that they breed there. Th« 
enervating duty of nidifying, laying, incubating and render-' 
mg unto the juvenile specimens such brief care and protec- 
tion as the mothers of promises might be expected to bestow, 
ms o generate a desire for a journey to some fashionable 
watering place. Possibly the food they find so abundant 
arlier around the lakes or marshes, now gives out, or their 
tastes change and they hanker after marine worms, or the 
