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Genera. 



a^. Larger; wing more than 165 mm.; upper parts much spotted. 



h^. A minute hind, toe; axillars sooty black Squatarola (p. 103) 



6^ No hind toe; axillars gray or white Charadrius (p. 104) 



a'. Smaller; wing less than 165 mm.; upper parts nearly uniform gray or brown. 



h^. Larger; wing, 140 to 165 mm.; bill stouter Ochthodromus (p. 105) 



h-. Smaller; Aving, 100 to 115 mm.; bill more slender JSgialitis (p. 109) 



Genus SQUATAEOLA Leach, 1816. 



This genus is similar to Charadrius but differs in having a minute hind 

 toe; the character is scarcely of generic value. 



90. SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA (Linnaeus). 

 GRAY PLOVER. 



Tringa squatarola Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), T, 149. 



Squatarola helvetica Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 182; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 152; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 17; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 22. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bohol {McGregor) ; Cebu (McGregor) ; Cuyo (Meyer) ; 

 Luzon (Sanches) ; Mindanao (Everett) ; Negros (Layard) ; Palawan (White- 

 head) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp. Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) . Subarctic regions, 

 south in winter to Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and South America. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. — Above mottled with bars of black 

 and ashy white, the feathers being black, notched with white and broadly 

 tipped with the latter; scapulars and wing-coverts like back, the greater 

 series edged externally with white, inner ones distinctly notched with 

 white; alula and primary-coverts black, the former slightly, the latter 

 more plainly, tipped with white; quills black, the shaft white about the 

 middle; first two primaries white for the greater portion of the inner 

 web, decreasing in extent on the succeeding quills, which also have the 

 median portion of the shaft white, but after the fourth this white shaft 

 accompanied by an increasing amount of white on outer web ; secondaries 

 brown, with white edges and tips, bases of inner webs also white; inner- 

 most secondaries resembling the back, and notched with ashy brown and 

 blackish ; lower back and rump dusky brown, with white spots and fringes 

 to the feathers; upper tail-coverts and tail white, barred with black or 

 blackish brown, the bars decreasing toward the outer feathers, where 

 they are broken up into spots on the outer web ; crown like the back, but 

 more minutely mottled and more hoary wliite; forehead and a broad eye- 

 brow white, extending doAvn sides of neck, and forming a large patch on 

 sides of upper breast; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and under surface 

 black, excepting abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are pure white; 

 thighs white, streaked with black; under wing-coverts white; axillars 

 black, with slightly indicated fringes of brown at tips ; quills below dusky, 

 with white on inner webs; lower primary-coverts pale ashy. 'Bill, legs. 



