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Europe to the larger city markets. It is occasional in Greenland but on the 

 American coast is purely accidental. There are two records for New York 

 State, the first a specimen taken at Merrick, L. I., about Christmas time, 

 in 1883 [see Dutcher, Auk, 3 : 438]. The second was shot at Watermills, L. I., 

 late in the fall of 1905 [see Beebe, Auk, 23: 221]. 



Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus) 

 Black-bellied Plover 



Plate 39 



Tringa squatarola Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:149 

 Squatarola helvetica DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 214, fig. 180 

 Charadrius squatarola A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 270 



squata'rola, Ital., name of this species 



Description. Hind toe present but small; tibia and tarsus reticulate; 

 a basal web between outer and middle toes. Summer: Upper parts 

 varied with blackish and ashy white; forehead, sides of the head above the 

 eye, sides of neck, and forebreast, lining of wings, lower belly and under 

 tail coverts white ; sides of head below the eye, throat, foreneck, breast, belly 

 and axillars black; primaries blackish, central part of their shafts and bases 

 of inner webs white; upper tail coverts mostly white; tail white barred 

 with dusky; bill and legs blackish. Female similar, but duller. Winter: 

 Upper parts dusky, profusely speckled and edged with grayish white; under 

 parts whitish streaked or spotted with grayish brown on the foreneck, 

 breast and sides ; primaries, axillars and tail as in summer. Young: Similar, 

 but spotted above with 3^ellowish white. 



Length 10. 5-12. 25 inches; extent 24-25; wing 7-7.5; tail 3; tarsus 2; 

 middle toe and claw 1.33; tibia bare i ; bill 1-1.25. 



Migration. This holarctic species breeds in high latitudes and migrates 

 southward in winter to nearly all parts of the globe; in America wintering 

 from Florida to Argentina. On Long Island it is a common transient 

 visitant, arriving in spring from the 5th to the 1 5th of May, passing north- 

 ward from the ist to the 8th of June, and returning from the 1 2th to the 31st 

 of July, leaves for the south from October 15 th to November loth. Along 

 the Great Lakes and other inland waters, it is less common than along 

 the coast, but is a regular migrant in the fall, appearing from the 20th of 

 August to the 5th of September and disappearing from the 1 5th to the 30th 



