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 south 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 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 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 Ma}^; 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 Ontario, average 

 May 27, earliest May 22 (Fleming); Vermilion, S. Dak., May 3, 1884 

 (Agersborg) ; northern North Dakota, average May 8, earliest 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 individuals remain late in the 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 



