. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . and Audubon, Richardson, Nuttall,and others have helped to perpetuate it. There is no good evidenceobtainable that the bird has nested south of the Hudson Bay dis-trict, but numerous observers have met with it in summer on theBarren Ground region and along the shores of the Arctic has been found in winter in the West Indies and South Amer-ica On its spring migration it goes north by various routes, —across the interior as well as along the coast-line, — but on theAtlantic shores it is more abundant in autumn than in s
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . and Audubon, Richardson, Nuttall,and others have helped to perpetuate it. There is no good evidenceobtainable that the bird has nested south of the Hudson Bay dis-trict, but numerous observers have met with it in summer on theBarren Ground region and along the shores of the Arctic has been found in winter in the West Indies and South Amer-ica On its spring migration it goes north by various routes, —across the interior as well as along the coast-line, — but on theAtlantic shores it is more abundant in autumn than in spring. I did not meet with any examples during spring on the Bay ofFundy or the New Brunswick shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,but Mr. Boardman informs me that the species occurs sparingly atthe mouth of the St. Croix River. Stearns reported it common insouthern Labrador, but Turner did not find it at Ungava. Note. — Occasionally an example of the Lapwing {Vanellusvanellus) — a European species — visits Greenland. It has beentaken on Long Island TURNSTONE. CHICKEN PLOVER. BRANT BIRD. RED-LEGGED PLOVER. Arenaria interpres. Char. Head, neck,breast,and shoulders variegated black and white;back streaked chestnut and black; wings with band of white; rumpwhite; tail-coverts and most of tail-feathers dark brown ; beneath, and feet orange red; hind toe turning inward. Bill black, stout,and acute. Length 9 inches. Nest. Under shelter of bushes or among herbage near the sea-shore;a slight depression, lined with a few leaves and blades of grass or weed-stems. Eggs. 2-4 (usually 4); greenish gray, spotted and streaked withbrown and bluish ash; 160 X iio. These singular marine birds are not only common to thewhole northern hemisphere, but extend their colonies even toSenegal and the Cape of Good Hope, in the southern half ofthe globe. Their favorite breeding-resorts are, however, con-fined to the inclement regions of the North, to which they arein no haste to r
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