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Family XXII. CHARADRIID^. Plovers. 

 CXIV. VANELLUS Brisson. 1760. 



269. Lapwing. 



Vanellus vanellus (Linn.) Light. 1854. 



One obtained 7th January, 1820, near Fiskenaes, Greenland; a 

 second received at the Museum in Copenhagen from JuUanshaab, 

 in 1847. {Arct. Man.) On the islands in Norton sound, Alaska. 

 {A. 0. U. List.) A single specimen was taken near St. Johns, New- 

 foundland, November 27th, 1905. A full account of this capture 

 was printed in The Auk, Vol. xxiii., p. 221. 



CXV. EUDROMIAS Brehm. 1831. 

 Dotterel. 



Eudroniias morinellus (Linn.) Brehm. 1831. 



One specimen was taken at King island, Alaska, July 23rd, 1897, 

 an adult female just beginning to moult. {Mcllhenny.) The only 

 American record. 



CXVI. SdUATAROLA Cuvier. 181 7. 



270. Black-bellied Plover. 



Squatarola squatarola (Linn.) Cuvier. 181 7. 



Rare in Greenland, but found in both Inspectorates; said to breed 

 on Melville peninsula. (Arct. Man.) Found at Whale point, Roes 

 Welcome, Hudson bay, and evidently breeding there. (A. P. Low.) 

 Common along west coast of James bay, August, 1904. (Spread- 

 borough.) A common autumn migrant in Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick. A migrant in Quebec and Ontario in 

 both spring and fall. Reversing its line of migration, this bird 

 appears in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in spring, and has 

 been killed by Dippie at Reaburn, Manitoba, as late as June ist. 

 Bent reports seeing it in large flocks at Hay lake, Sask., May 29th 

 to June I St, 1905. Atkinson says that in Manitoba and further 

 west, it appears in uncertain numbers in May, sometimes in large 

 flocks and then being absent for several years. Spreadborough 



