﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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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 
  3g 
  

  

  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 
  lo. 
  5-1 
  2.25 
  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 
  15th 
  of 
  May, 
  passing 
  north- 
  

   ward 
  from 
  the 
  ist 
  to 
  the 
  8th 
  of 
  June, 
  and 
  returning 
  from 
  the 
  1 
  2th 
  to 
  the 
  3 
  ist 
  

   of 
  July, 
  leaves 
  for 
  the 
  south 
  from 
  October 
  15th 
  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 
  15th 
  to 
  the 
  3otli 
  

  

  