GREY PLOVER. 



GRALLATORES. 



477 



CHARADRIWM. 



THE GREY PLOVER. 



Squatorala cinerea. 



Tringa squatarola, Grey Sandpiper, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 69. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Plover, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 87. 



Squatarola cinerea, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 111. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol ii. p. 227. 



Vanellus griseus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 181. 



Squatarola cinerea, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 



Vanellus melanogaster, Vanneau Pluvier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 547. 



SQUATAROLA. Generic Characters. Bill rather strong, cylindrical, straight, 

 nearly as long as the head ; the tip, or horny part, about half the length of the 

 whole bill, tumid, and arched, with the tomia bending inwards. Nasal groove 

 wide, half the length of the bill ; mesorhinium depressed below the level of the 

 tip ; nostrils longitudinally pierced in the membrane of the groove, linear, 



