78 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Black-bellied Plover. Squatarola squatarola (Linn.). 
Breeding range.—This is a circumpolar species, but the places‘where 
it is known 'to breed are comparatively few. In North America it 
has been found breeding on the Melville Peninsula (Richardson), 
Boothia Felix (Ross), Franklin Bay (MacFarlane), and Point Barrow 
(Murdoch). In the Eastern Hemisphere it breeds on the Kolgnjef 
and Dolgoi islands of Russia and near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, 
and probably breeds on the Liakoff Islands, Siberia, and near the 
south end of Nova Zembla Island. 
Winter range.—The North American breeding: birds pass re in 
winter, to Chimbote and Tumbez, in northern Peru (Taczanowski), and 
to the Amazon River, Brazil (Pelzeln). The species is also found at 
this season through northern South America, the West Indies, Central 
America, and Mexico to the coast of South Carolina (Coues), occa- 
sionally North Carolina (Bishop), southern Texas (Sennett), and the 
coast of California north to Humboldt County (Townsend). It prob- 
ably wintered formerly to the mouth of the Columbia (Suckley). The 
birds of Russia and Siberia winter from the Mediterranean, India, and 
southern China to southern Africa and Australia, The species is 
accidental i in Hawaii (Henshaw). 
Migration range. —The black-bellied plover has been taken several 
times on the west coast of Greenland north to Egedesminde, latitude 
69° N. (Winge), but probably does not breed i in that country. It is 
known only as a migrant along the east coast of Siberia, as at Plover 
Bay (Nelson) and on the Commander Islands (Stejneger). 
Spring migration.—The species is a late and not common migrant 
on the Atlantic coast in the spring, and appears in New Jersey (Stone) 
and on Long Island in late April and early May; Montauk, N. Y., 
April 30, 1902 (Scott); Cape Cod, Massachusetts, average May 23, 
earliest. April 18, 1894 (Mackay) ; Pictou, Nova Scotia, May 17, 1895 
(Hickman). Nor is it common in the interior, where some dates of 
spring arrivals are: Near New Orleans, La., March 2, 1890 (Beyer); 
Sedalia, Mo., March 21, 1884 (Sampson) ; southern Gntanis, average 
May 27, earliest May 29 (Fleming); Vermilion, S. Dak., May 3, 1884 
(Agersborg) : northern North Dakota, average May 8, eatliest May 5, 
1894 (Bowen); Reaburn, Manitoba, average May 19, earliest May 14, 
1901 (Wemyss) ; Cheyenne, Wyo., average May 18, earliest May 11, 
1884 (Bond); Indian Head, Saskatchewan, average May 14, earliest 
May 9, 1904 (Lang); Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, May 23, 1901 (Preble) : 
Fort: Resolution, Mackenzie, June 2, 1860 (Kennicott) ; Sitka, Alaska, 
May 6, 1869 (Bischoff) ; mouth of the Yukon, May 12; Dawson, 
Yukon, May 20, 1899 (Bishop); Point Barrow, Alaska, June 21, 1882 
(Murdoch), and, June 26, 1898 (Stone). 
Some individnals remain late in the s spring on the Atlantic coast and 
possibly some nonbreeders may remain the entire summer. In 
Florida they have been seen June 14, June 29, July 4, July 26, and 
