482 THE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
range. It is believed that this bird was known to Herodotus, and that it 
was held by the ancient Egyptians in reverence second only to that accorded 
the Sacred Ibis (/bis ethiopica). 
There is only one record of this bird in Ohio, that reported by Dr. Kirt- 
land in 1850, a pair having been seen “two years since near Fairport, Lake 
County,” and one of them taken. 
No. 218. 
BLACK-BELLIED- PEOW ERe 
"A. O. U. No. 270 Squatarola squatarola (Linn.). 
Synonyms.—BEETLE-HEAD,; OX-EYE. 
Description.—Adult in swmmer: Above, broadly dusky or black varied by 
white in spots and terminal edgings, the latter color predominating on top of head 
and hind-neck and on wings; primaries dusky brown with large basal areas and 
portion of shaft (increasing inwardly) white; upper tail-coverts and tail white, 
barred with black; forehead, space over eye, and sides of neck, to or below breast, 
white; lining of wings, lower belly, thighs, and crissum white; sides of head and 
remaining under parts, including axillars, sooty black; bill and feet black. Adult 
in winter: Without black below (except on axillars)—white instead; fore-neck 
and chest streaked and spotted with dusky; dusky of upper parts lighter; and 
white replaced by pale gray. Jmmature: Similar to adult in winter, but head and 
neck streaked and back spotted with yellowish-buff. Length 10.50-12.00 (266.7- 
304.8) ; wing 7.50 (190.5) ; tail 3.00 (76.2) ; bill 1.18 (30.) ; tarsus 1.85 (47.). 
Recognition Marks.—Killdeer size or larger; black and white in broad de- 
sign, and without distinct yellow above; below black (in summer) or nearly white 
(in winter or young) ; avillaries black at any season. Similar to succeeding spe- 
cies, but larger; bill and head larger ; presence of hind toe distinctive. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, on the ground. Eggs, 3 or 4, light 
or dark buffy olive, heavily speckled and spotted with dark browns or blacks. Av. 
Size, 2104 x 1-43) (51.8) x 36:3). 
General Range.—Nearly cosmopolitan, but chiefly in the northern hemis- 
phere, breeding far north and migrating south in winter; in America to the West 
Indies, Brazil, and Colombia. 
Range in Ohio.—Rare migrant on the Lake Erie shore; casual elsewhere. 
IT is not to be wondered at, perhaps, that a bird so light of body and 
so fleet of wing should choose to live the strenuous life at, all seasons. In 
summer the Plover is always within sound of the crunching ice-floe or the 
screaming Gyrfalcon. In winter the frequent cannonading of South Ameri- 
can revolutionists serves to redeem the monotony of tropical exisitence; while 
