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CHAEADEIUS. 



CHARADRIUS HELVETICUS. 



GEEY PLOVER. 



Diagnosis. Charadkius axillaribus nigris. 



Variations. It is not known that any differences exist between examples from the Old World and those 

 from the American continent. 



'\Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. pp. 250, 252 (1766). 



Synonymy. Tringa squatarola, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1758); Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766). 



Vanellus griseus, \ 



Vanellus varius, VBrisson, Orn. v. pp. 100, 103, 106 (1760). 

 Vanellus helveticus, ' 

 Tringa helvetica (Briss.),' 

 Tringa varia (Briss.), 

 Charadrius hypomelus, Pallas, Eeise Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 699 (1773). 

 Charadrius nsevius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 

 Vanellus melanogaster, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 356 (1809) . 

 Squatarola grisea (Briss.), Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. ^c. Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1816). 

 Squatarola squatarola {Linn.), Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 467 (1817). 

 Squatarola varia (Briss.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 558, 



Charadrius helveticus {Briss.), Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berlin, p. 70 (1823). 

 Charadrius pardela, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 142 (1826). 

 Squatarola cinerea, Fleming, Brit. An. p. Ill (1828). 



