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Genera. 
a, Larger; wing more than 165 mm.; upper parts much spotted. 
bt. A minute hind toe; axillars sooty black................-..2----- Squatarola (p. 103) 
67. No hind toe; axillars gray or. white................-.---s-..--cs0e-+-- Charadrius (p. 104) 
a*, Smaller; wing less than 165 mm.; upper parts nearly uniform gray or brown. 
bt. Larger; wing, 140 to 165 mm.; bill stouter-.............-.... Ochthodromus (p. 105) 
b?. Smaller; wing, 100 to 115 mm.; bill more slendev.............. #gialitis (p. 109) 
Genus SQUATAROLA 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 (Linnzus). 
GRAY PLOVER, 
Tringa squatarola LINN&=US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 
Squatarola helvetica SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 182; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 152; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 17; McGrecor 
and WorCcESTER, 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 & 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 white; forehead and a broad eye- 
brow white, extending down 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, 
