228 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



Order GRALLATORES. 

 Sub-order LIMICOL^. 

 Family CHARADRIID^. 



Sub-family CHAEADKIIN^. 

 Genus Squatakola, Cuv. 



92. Squatarola helvetica, (Linn.) Brehm. Black-bellied Plover j Gray 



Plover. 



Tringa helvetica, Linn., Forst. 



Squatarola helvetica, Brehm., Bp., Gray, and of most late authors. 



Vanellus helreticus, Vieil. 



Charadrius helveticus, Licht., Bji., Nutt., And. 



Tringa varia, Liun. 



Charadrius varius, Finsch & Hartl. 



Pluvialis varius, Schl., Degl. & Gerbe. 



Tringa squatarola, Linn. 



Charadrius squatarola, Naura. 



Vanellus squatarola, Schl. 



Vanellus melanogaster, Bech., Temm., Sab., Rich., Sw. & Rich. 



Squatarola australis, Bp. 



Length, 11.50; wing, 7.50; tail, 3.00. 



Hob. — Nearly cosmopolitan. 



Unlike the next species, this is by no means a frequent visitor to the 

 Bermudas. One was killed and another seen by Colonel Wedderburn at 

 Mangrove Bay in September, 1848. I shot one on the beach below the 

 Sand-hills on the 5th, and another near Warwick Camp on the 13th No- 

 vember, 1874. Both these birds were alone. 



Genus Charadrius, Linn. 



93. Charadrius fulvus, var. virginicus, (Bovk.) Cones. American Golden 

 Plover. 



Charadrius dominicus, Miiller, Cass. 



Charadrius pluvialis, Wils., Sab., Bp., Sw. & Rich., Nutt., Aud. 



Charadrius pluvialis, var. virginieus, Ridg. 



Charadrius virginieus, Bork., Licht., Bd., Coop. «fcLuck., Hayd., Drees., Reinh., 



Stev., Snow, Trippe, and of nearly all late local lists. 

 Pluvialis virginieus, Bp. 

 Charadrius marmoratus, Wag., Aud., Putn. 

 Pluvialis fulvus americanus, Schl. 

 Charadrius fulvus, var. virginieus, Coues. 



Length, 9.50 ; wing, 7.00 ; tail, 2.50. 



Rah. — All of Korth America j Greenland; accidental in Europe. 



(Coues.) 



