68 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
270. Black-bellied Plover (Squatarola squatarola cynosurae). (Fie. 51.) 
Range.—Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds on the Arctic coast from Point Barrow to Boothia and Melville 
Peninsulas, and also on the Arctic coast of Russia and Siberia; wintersfrom the Mediterranean to South 
Africa, in India and Australia, and from California, Louisiana, and North Carolina to Braziland Peru; 
in migration occurs throughout the United States andin Greenland and Bermuda; accidentalin Hawaii. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Beach-bird (Calif.); beetle-head (sometimes shortened to beetle) (Me., 
N. H., Mass., R. I., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Md., Va.); big-head (Miss.); black- 
bellied kildeer (Long Id., N. Y.); black-bellied plover (Long Id., N. Y., Del., Md., 
Miss.); blackbreast plover (sometimes shortened to blackbreast, or black-breaster) 
(NOS. Me, N. Hi, (Mass. sR. 2. Conn, Long ald= NV. 7 Ne le Midas Vases). 
blackheart (Mass.); black snipe (Ala.); bottle-head (Mass.); bullhead (sometimes 
bullhead plover) (Que., Mass., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., Va., Ky., 
Tex., Wash., Calif.); chuckle-head (Me., Mass.); field plover (Que., Ont.); frost-bird 
(for the young) (R. I., Long Id., N. Y.); gray plover (Labr., Que., Ont., Me., Long 
Id., N. Y., N. J., Calif.); grosse-téte (big head, La.); gump (Mass.); hollow-head 
(N.J.); Maycock (Mass.); owl-head (N.J.); pigeon de mer (sea pigeon) (La.); pigeon 
plover (N. 8.); pilot (Va.); plover-curlew (Labr., Que.); Quebec curlew (Labr.); 
vanneau gris (gray lapwing) (Que:); vanneau pluvier (plover lapwing) (Que.); ventre 
noir (blackbelly) (La.). 
x 5A ay 
wthy * 
aa apy 
een 
Ss 
2 aa 
FIG. 51.—Black-bellied Plover. 
Geographic index.—Ala., black snipe; B. C., blackbreast plover; Calif., beach- 
bird, bullhead, gray plover; Conn., beetle-head, blackbreast plover, bullhead; 
Del., black-bellied plover; Ky., bullhead; Labr., gray plover, plover curlew, Quebec 
curlew; La., grosse téte, pigeon de mer, ventre noir; Me., beetle-head, blackbreast 
plover, chuckle-head, gray plover; Md., beetle-head, black-bellied plover, black- 
et. bullhead; Mass., beetle-head, blackbreast plover, blackheart, bottle-head, 
bullhead, chuckle-head, gump, Maycock; Miss., big-head, black-bellied plover; 
N. H., beetle-head, blackbreast plover; NV. J., blackbreast plover, bullhead, gray 
plover, hollow-head, owl-head; V. Y., beetle-head, black-bellied kildeer, black- 
ellied plover, black-breast plover, bullhead, frost-bird, gray plover; NV. S., black- 
breast plover, pigeon plover; Ont., field plover, gray plover; Pa., bullhead; Que., 
bullhead, field plover, gray plover, plover curlew, vanneau gris, vanneau pluvier; 
R. I., beetle-head, blackbreast plover, frost-bird; Ter., bullhead; Va., beetle-head, 
blackbreast plover, bullhead, pilot; Wash., bullhead. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Bull’s-eye, four-toed plover, gray lapwing, gray sandpiper, hawk’s-eye, Helvetian 
plover, oxeye, pluvier 4 ventre noir (black-bellied plover), pluvier doré 4 gorge 
noire (black-throated golden plover), squatarole 4 ventre noir, squatarole suisse, 
Swiss plover, Swiss sandpiper, vanneau suisse (Swiss lapwing), whistling field- 
plover, whistling plover. 
271. European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria **). 
Range.—N orthern part of the Old World. Breeds from Great Britain and central Europe to Iceland, 
Norway, and northwestern Siberia; winters south to northern Africa and southern Asia; casualin Green- 
land. 
32 Charadrius apricarius. 
