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rise on the wing, they utter a plaintive cry. Legs "crimson red;" toes leaden 

 colour, with their under surface remarkably soft and fleshy. Iris dark brown. 



Charadrius virgininus. JBorkh. 



Charadrius virgininus, Borhh. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Car. Nat. Cur. 1834. xvi. pi. 18. 

 Charadrius marmoratus, Wagl. 



This representative of the golden plover of Europe and North America, is 

 common on the banks of the Plata in large and small flocks. It is found also, 

 according to Meyer, in Chile. 



1. Squatarola cincta. Jard. Sf Selby. 



Tringa Urvillii, Gamot, Ann. Ic. Nat. Jan. 1826. 

 Vanellus cinctus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. Zool. p. 720. pi. xliii. 

 Squatarola cincta, Jard. 8$ Selby s Illust. Orn. pi. 110. 

 Charadrius rubecola, Vig. Journ. iv. p. 96. 



I obtained specimens of this bird in Tierra del Fuego, where it inhabited 

 both the sea shore and the bare stony summits of the mountains ; at the Falkland 

 Islands, where it frequented the upland marshes ; and at Chiloe, where I met 

 with large flocks in the fields, not near the coast. 



2. Squatarola fusca. Gould. 

 S. vertice corporeque supra fuscis, dorsi parapterique plumis pallidiore marginatis ; 

 remigibus primariis nigrescenti fuscis, pogoniis externis albo anguste marginatis 

 rhachibus albis ; uropygio cauddque obscure fuscis, remigibus externis albo late mar- 

 ginatis et terminatis ; fronte, genis, guld, abdomine postico, caudceque tegminibus 

 inferioribus flavescenti albis, colli pectorisque lateribus fuscis, colli plumis fusco 

 pallido terminatis ; pedibus nigris. 



Long. .tot. 8 unc. alee, 5| ; caudce, 3; tarsi, If ; rostri, J. 



Crown of the head, all the upper surface brown, the feathers of the back and the 

 scapularies, margined with paler; primaries blackish brown, finely edged on 

 their inner margins with white, and with white shafts ; rump and tail dark 

 brown, the outer feathers largely margined and tipped with white ; forehead 

 and sides of the face sandy white ; throat, lower part of the abdomen, and 

 under tail coverts, bufiy white ; sides of the neck and chest brown ; the 

 feathers of the latter tipped with still lighter brown ; bill and feet black. 

 Habitat, Maldonado ; inland glassy plains. 



This species is most closely allied to the foregoing. I obtained only one 

 specimen, which, on comparison with several of the S. cincta, appears a little larger 

 in all its dimensions, especially in the length of the tarsi. Its back and scapu- 



