ORDER LIMICOI^E. 99 



GENUS CHARADRIUS LINN^US. 



SUBGENUS SQUATAROLA CUVIER. 



Squatarola Cuv. Reg. An. I. 1817, 467. Type, Tringa squatarola 

 LINN. 



270. Charadrius squatarola (LINN.). 



Black-bellied Plover. 



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

 Charadrius squatarola NAUM. Vog. Deutschl. VII. 1834, 250. 



[B 5 io, 395, RS^, C 5 8o.] 



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.EUS. 



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 R S i 4 , C 5 8 3 .] 



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. 



[6503,0396, R 5 i 5 , C 581.] 



GEOG. DIST. Arctic America except coast of Bering Sea, migrat- 

 ing southward throughout North and South America to Patagonia. 



