226 GRALLATORES. SQUATAROLA. 
this sectional division, Cuvier and other naturalists made it 
the type of a genus, of which it was then supposed to be 
the only species; a second, however, has been since disco- 
vered in the southern hemisphere, specimens of which were 
brought by Captain P. P. Kinc, R.N., from the Straits of 
Magellan. This latter species has been figured in the 
* Tllustrations of Ornithology,” under the title of Squatarola 
cincta. In form and general appearance these birds are very 
similar to the true Plovers (or genus Charadrius), and, in- 
deed, are only to be distinguished by a stronger bill, and by 
the small hind toe, which the Plovers totally want. This 
character brings them into direct contiguity with the Lap- 
wings, and they thus hold an intermediate station, forming the 
connecting link between the genera Vanellus and Charadrius. 
Their manners are also very similar, and they subsist on the 
same food, viz. earth-worms, slugs, insects, and larvee. They 
are subject to the double moult, and that of the European 
species, in almost every respect, resembles the analogous 
change in Charadrius Pluvialis ; whilst that of the exotic 
species is very much like to Charadrius Morinellus. They 
inhabit the borders of rivers, plains, and marshy tracts, as 
well as the shores of the ocean, where they generally pass the 
greater portion of the winter. In Europe they are migra- 
tory, retiring in spring from the temperate parts to regions 
within the arctic circle to breed. 
