Charadrius dominicus 1896 Lake Umbagog. September 7 | 1st shot. ' bird from 10' || The Golden Plover is, I think, the swiftest flyer of all our waders and I am sometimes inclined to believe that it could, if it wished, outstrip any of the Ducks. Its long pointed wings move rapidly yet with an ease and smoothness that evidences flight effort on the part of their owner. They are raised higher and cut deeper at each stroke than do the wings of wet birds. The general effect of the flight suggests not only speed but great momentum. The bird in the air looks more like a Passenger Pigeon. Its ordinary flight call is a shrill, squeaking whistle of two syllables. It is much less musical than the calls of wet waders and not to be compared in this respect with the exquisitely plaintive whistle of the Black-breasted Plover. On the afternoon of the 7th a Golden Plover flying about one the lake, flew down at a night-heron bushship close past it and evidently frightening it badly. 1897 September ♂ (calling) ♂ shot at. ♀, through 116 ft. ♂ shot part.) 10 running. 20 N.S. shore. 1898 August Moose Point September 22⊕ moon, 23⊕ 24 wet 104