ORDER LIMICOL^. <^9 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus. 

 Subgenus SQUATAROLA Cuvier. 



Squatarola Cuv. R^g. An. I. 1817, 467. Type, Tringa sguatarola 

 Linn. 



270. Charadrius squatarola (Linn.). 



Black-bellied Plover. 



Tringa squatarola Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 149. 

 Charadrius squatarola Naum. Vog. Deutschl. VI I. 1834, 250. 



[B 510, C 395, R 513, C 580.] 



Geog. Dist. — Nearly cosmopolitan, but chiefly in the northern 

 hemisphere, breeding far north, and migrating south in winter; in 

 America, to the West Indies, Brazil, and Colombia. 



Subgenus CHARADRIUS Linn^us. 



Charadrius Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 150. Type, C. aprica- 

 rius Linn. 



[271.] Charadrius apricarius Linn. 



Golden Plover. 



Charadrius apricarius Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 150. 



[B— , C— , RS14, C583.] 



Geog. Dist. — Europe, south to Africa in winter ; eastern Green- 

 land. 



272. Charadrius dominicus Mull. 



American Golden Plover. 



Charadrius dominicus Mull. S. N. Suppl. 1776, 116. 



[B 503, C 396, R 515, C 581.] 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic America except coast of Bering Sea, migrat- 

 ing southward throughout North and South America to Patagonia. 



