182 CHAEADKIirj^. 



white, with brown bases, which decrease in extent towards the 

 inner quills ; the tail is similarly coloured to that of S. melanopterus, 

 but the black band disappears on the outer feathers, which are 

 entirely white ; the under wing-coverts and axillaries are white, but 

 those along the edge of the wing and the lower greater coverts are 

 brown like the lining of the quills, which have no white bases : 

 " bill black ; feet reddish brown ; iris orange-yellow " (J. Butti- 

 hofer). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 6-5, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus 2*4. 



Hah. West Africa, from Liberia to the Loango coast. East Africa, 

 from the Zanzibar district, south to Natal. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Accra, Gold Coast. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Accra (Aubinn). Sharpe Coll. 



23. SdUATAROLA. 



Type. 



Squatarola, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fy Birds Brit. 

 Mus. p. 29 (1816) S. helvetica. 



Range. Almost cosmopolitan. 



1. Squatarola helvetica. 



The Grey Plover, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 72, pi. 76 (1738) ; 



Yarrell, Brit. B. ii. p. 413 (1843). 

 Le Vanneau gris, Briss. Orn. v. p. 100, pi. ix. fig. 1 (1760) ; 



UAubent. Pi. Enl. viii. pi. 854. 

 Le Vanneau varie\ Briss. Orn. v. p. 103, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1760) : 



LfAubent. PL Enl. viii. pi. 923. 

 Le Vanneau de Suisse, Briss. Orn. v. p. 106, pi. x. fig. 1 (1760) : 



D'Aubent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 853 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 60 



(1781). 

 Tringa helvetica, Linn. Syst. Is at. i. p. 250 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Aat. 



i. p. 676 (1788). 

 Tringa varia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 682 (1788). 

 Tringa squatarola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766) ; Scop. Ann. L. 



p. 101 (1769) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 682 (1788) ; Chapm. Trav. 



S. Afr. ii. p. 416 (1868). 

 Charadrius hvpomelas, Pall. Beis. Buss. Beichs, iii. p. 699 (1773) ; 



Wagl. Syst. Av., Charadrius, p. 71, sp. 43 (1827). 

 Le Vanneau-Pluvier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 68 (1781). 

 Swiss Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 167 (1785). 

 Grey Sandpiper, Lath. t. c. p. 168. 

 Grey Sandpiper, var. A, Lath. t. c. p. 169. 

 Charadrius naevius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788) ; Less. Man. 



<TOrn. ii. p. 324 (1828). 

 Vanellus ruelanogaster, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 356 (1809) ; 



Temm. Man. a" Orn. ii. p. 547 (1820) ; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xiii. p. 186 (1821) ; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 15 (1827) ; 



Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 370 (1831 : Hudson's Bay) ; 



Holboell, Orn. Beitr. Faun. Groenl. p. 37 (1846) ; Crespon, Orn. 



Gard, p. 367 (1840) ; Fallon, Ois. Belcj. p. 153 (1875). 



