_Pluvialis dominica fulva_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2,
1934, p. 244 (Oceania); Bryan, Guam, Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936,
p. 24 (Guam); Stickney, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 3
(Saipan, Guam, Palau, Ponapé, Kusaie, Ruk, Tarawa); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 39 (Oceania); Downs, Trans. Kansas
Acad. Sci., 49, 1946, p. 93 (Tinian); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 536
(Guam); Borror, Auk, 1947, p. 417 (Agrihan); Stott, Auk, 1947, p.
525 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 50 (Guam, Rota, Peleliu, Garakayo, Ulithi, Truk).
_Pluvialis dominica_ Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology,
32, 1946, pp. 306, 310, 313, 316, 318 (Ulithi, Guam); Wharton,
Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Breeds from Siberia to western Alaska. Winters
from India east to Oceania; stragglers occur west to Africa and
east to Pacific coast of North America. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Agrihan, Asuncion; Palau
Islands--Angaur, Peleliu, Ngabad, Garakayo, Koror, Babelthaup;
Caroline Islands--Yap, Ulithi, Truk, Lukunor, Ponapé, Kusaie;
Marshall Islands--Mille, Arhno, Rongelab, Majuro, Likieb, Bikini.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 69 (39 males, 26 females, 4
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 17 (July 8, 19,
24, Aug. 31, Sept. 4, 17, 19, 26, Oct. 5, 8, 23, 24)--Rota, 5 (Oct.
20, 25); AMNH--Guam, 6 (Mar. 7, 8, 27, Aug. 15)--Saipan, 1 (Sept.
8)--Asuncion, 2 (Feb. 16); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 9 (Sept.
6-20)--Garakayo, 1 (Sept. 20); AMNH--exact locality not given, 7
(Oct. 13, Nov. 13, 15); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 4 (Aug. 16,
21); AMNH--Kusaie, 9 (Mar. 10-30)--Ponapé, 2 (Dec. 15)--Truk, 3
(Feb. 6); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 3 (Mar. 4, 7, May 3).
_Parasites._--Wharton (1946:174, 175) records the following
chiggers (Acarina) from _Pluvialis_ taken by the NAMRU2 party at
Guam: _Acariscus pluvius_, _A. anous_, _Neoschöngastia carveri_,
and _N. namrui_; and at Ulithi: _N. pauensis_ and _N. ewingi_.
_Weights._--Birds taken at Guam and Rota weighed as follows: seven
males, 107-125 (117); four females, 109-120 (114).
_Remarks._--The Pacific Golden Plover is one of the most abundant
migratory shore birds to visit Micronesia. So characteristic of
Micronesia is this species that almost all ornithologists who have made
observations in the area have recorded it. Finsch observed the plover in
the Carolines and Marshalls. Coultas made notes on, and collected
specimens of, it in the Marianas, Carolines, and Palaus. The Hand-list
of Japanese Birds (Hachisuka _et al._, 1942:216) lists _Pluvialis_ from
17 islands in Micronesia.
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