CHARADRIN &. 327 
a few, more or less raised and swollen at the tip; nostrils placed 
in a long groove; wings moderately long, and pointed ; taal usual- 
ly short ; tarsi long, reticulated in mest, or scutellate near the 
feet only; toes usually short, connected at the base by a 
membrane ; hind-toe minute er wanting. 
Sun-ramity, Charadrine. 
Bill short, somewhat weak, slightly enlarged above at the tip ; 
tarsi shorter than in the next two families and more reticulated 5 
wings long and much pointed; first quill usually longest ; tail 
short, nearly even ; hind-toe generally wanting. 
Genus, Squatarola, Cuvier. 
Bill enlarged at the tip, both above and below ; nasal groove 
short ; a very minute hind-tee present, provided with a rudimen- 
tary claw ; otherwise as in Charadrius. 
Squataroia helvetica, Lin. 
844.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 635; Butler, Curent. 
Stray Feathers, Vol. 1V, p. 11; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 425 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 224. 
THE GREY PLOVER. 
Length, 12; wing, 8; tail, 3:25; tarsus, 2; bill at frent, 
1:25. 
Bill black ; irides dusky-brown ; feet blackish-grey. 
In winter plumage, forehead and chin white ; streak over the 
eyes, forepart of the neck, sides of the breast and flanks, white, 
variegated with spots of brown and ash color ; head and all the 
upper parts of the body dusky-brown, the feathers edged and 
tipped with greyish-white; belly, abdomen, thighs and upper 
tail-coverts, pure white; beneath the wing some long black 
feathers arising from the axille ; tail white, towards the tip reddish, 
with transverse brown bars which become paler and less numerous 
on the lateral feathers. 
In summer plumage the forehead, lores, throat, and whole 
lower surface become deep black, edged white on the forehead 
and sides of the neck, and the upper plumage is brown, more or 
less barred with black and white. 
The young birds differ from the winter plumage only in having 
the spots on the breast and flanks larger and paler, and the 
upper parts greyish with white spots. 
The Grey Plover is a cold weather visitant all along the sea- 
coast, and is particularly abundant about the Kurrachee Harbour. 
Genus, Charadrius, Lin. 
Bill straight, short, compressed, swollen at the tip; legs 
moderate ; wings long, pointed, first quill longest ; tail short. 
