Genus SQUATAEOLA. 

 Bill straight, stout, thick at the base, terminal third hard, elevated and concave ; gonys 

 correspondingly inflated ; nostrils linear, lateral, placed in a pronounced groove reaching to the 

 horny tip. Wings long, pointed; the 1st quill the longest. Tail of 12 feathers, short and 

 cuneate. Legs and feet strong ; tarsus tolerably short and reticulate ; outer toe connected to 

 the middle at the base by a web ; hind toe minute. 



SQUATAEOLA HELVETICA. 



(THE GREY PLOVER.) 



Vanellus helveticus, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 10G. no. 4. 



Tringa helvetica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766). 



Charadrius helveticus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766), ex Brisson. 



Charadrius squatarola (L.), Gould, B. of Europe, pi. 302 (1837) ; Von MiddendorfF, Sibir. 



Reise, ii. p. 209 (1853). 

 Squatarola helvetica (Linn.), Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 12 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. 262 (1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 635 (1864); Gould, Handb. B. of Austr. ii. 



p. 224 (1865) ; Layard, B. of S. Afr. no. 562 (1867) ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 6 



(1871); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 236 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 228; 



id. ibid. 1874, p. 287; Adam, t. c. p. 338; Salvadori, Uccelli di Born. p. 313 (1874); 



Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 159 (1875); Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. p. 226 ; Hume, 



Str. Feath. 1876, p. 11; Scully, t.c. p. 184; Armstrong, t.c. p. 338; Legge, t. c. 



p. 245 (first record from Ceylon) ; Seebohm & Harvie Brown, Ibis, 1876, p. 222, pi. v. ; 



Butler, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 222; Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 455; id. ibid. 



1879, viii. (List Ind. B.) p. 112. 

 Pluvialis varius (Briss.), Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Cursores, p. 53 (1864). 

 Charadrius varius (Briss.), Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1012 (1874). 

 The Swiss Sandpiper, Latham ; Vanneau-Pluvier, Buff. ; Grey Sandpiper of some ; Taram- 



bola, Portuguese ; de Goudkievit, Dutch ; Kiebitzregenpfeifer, German ; Chorlito, 



Spanish (Saunders); Redolin, Spanish; Krungi, Amoor Land (Schrenck). Chullok, 



Turki (Scully) ; Burra Batan, Hind. (Jerdon) ; Chilugan, Java (Horsf.) ; Abu hadjar, 



Arabic (Von Heuglin). 



Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 12-0 to 12-6 inches ; wing 8-0 to 8-5, expanse 26-5 ;' tail 3-2; tarsus 2-0 



to 2-1 ; middle toe and claw 1-37 to 1-4 ; bill to gape 1-3. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dark greyish blue or plumbeous. 



Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, upper surface (with the exception of the tail-coverts), and wings dark glossy brown, 

 the feathers tipped and marginally spotted with white, and the shafts black ; on the scapulars and wing-coverts 

 the spots are large and take the form of bars, the intervening spaces being blackish ; greater coverts broadly- 

 tipped and edged with white ; quills and primary-coverts glossy blackish brown, the coverts with broad, and the 

 inner primaries with narrow white tips ; the latter white across the centre, and the secondaries mostly white, 



