CHARADRIID.E — THE PLOVERS — SQUATAROLA. 



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white, nearly pure and unspotted on the forehead ; sides of the neck and rump tinged with ashy, 

 and having irregular transverse spots of brownish black on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts ; 

 the brownish black frequently predominating on those parts, and the rump also frecpiently with 

 transverse bars of the same. Lower part of the abdomen, tibia, and under tail-coverts, white. 



Summer plumage. 



Quills, brownish black, lighter on their inner webs, with a middle portion of their shafts white, 

 and a narrow longitudinal stripe of white frequently on the shorter primaries and secondaries. 

 Tail white, with transverse imperfect narrow bands of black. The black color of the under parts 

 generally with a faint bronzed or coppery lustre, and presenting a scale-like appearance; the 

 brownish black of the upper parts with a greenish lustre. Bill and legs black ; iris brown. Younger 

 and vn?ifer plumage : Entire upper parts dark brown, with circular and irregular small spots of 

 white, and frequently of yellow, most numerous on the wing-coverts ; upper tail-coverts white. 

 Under parts white, with short longitudinal lines and spots of dark brownish cinereous on the neck 



Winter plumage. 



and breast ; quills brownish black, with a large longitudinal sjjace of white on their inner webs and 

 also on the outer webs of the shorter primaries. Young: Upper parts lighter, and with the white 

 spots more irregular or less rounded ; narrow lines on the neck and breast more numerous. 



Total length about 111 inches ; wing, 7|- ; tail, 3 inches; culmen, about 1.10 ; tarsus, 1.95 ; 

 middle toe, 1.15. 



We can discover no diflerence between American specimens and tliose from Europe. In the 

 young and winter plumage there is considerable variation in the distinctness of the yellow wash 

 on the upper parts, the light markings of the upper surface being in some examples entirely of 

 this color, while in others there is scarcely even a tinge of it. 



