THE GREY PLOVER. 539 



Marsh, nr. Hurstmonceux (Sussex) April 23, 1914 (T. Parkin, 

 Brit. B., vni, p. 52). Several shot (three preserved and wing of 

 another sent to Wither by) Romney Marsh (Kent) Sept., 1915 

 (H. W. Ford-Lindsay, op. c, ix, p. 212). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in arctic Asia and western 

 Alaska, winters in Pacific Ocean, south to New Zealand, also in 

 Chile. Has occurred as vagrant in Poland, Norway, on Heligoland 

 (three), Malta (two), in south Spain and (according to Loche) in 

 Algeria (one). Replaced by C. dominions dominions in America. 



Genus SQUATAROLA Cuv. 



Squatarola Cuvier, Regne Anim., i, p. 467 (1816 — Type by tautonymy, 

 squatarola). 



Closely allied to large spotted species of genus Charadrins, 

 aprioarius and dominions, but a small hind toe with claw is present. 

 Though this is apparently of no value and there is probably no 

 reason to regard it as a character widely separating it from latter 

 species, it is a convenient one to distinguish it as a special genus, 

 and we follow this universal custom. Only 1 species in 2 subspecies. 



SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA 



382. Squatarola squatarola squatarola (L.)— THE GREY PLOVER. 



Tringa Squatarola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., eel. x, i, p. 149 (1758 — Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Squatarola helvetica (Linnseus), Yarrell, in, p. 278 ; Saunders, p. 551. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Fore-head greyish- 

 white ; crown, nape, mantle, scapulars, back and rump ash-brown, 

 feathers tipped white and shaded subterminally black-brown, 

 scapulars also notched white and obscurely barred black-brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, more or less barred ash-brown ; eye- 

 stripe white, streaked dusky-brown ; ear-coverts dusky-brown 

 faintly tipped white ; cheeks and throat white streaked dusky- 

 brown ; chin white ; feathers of breast pale ash-brown, edged white, 

 or white, marked and shaded ash-brown ; flanks white more or less 

 suffused ash-brown ; belly and vent white ; under tail-coverts 

 white, outer ones with irregular brown markings ; axillaries black ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; tail-feathers barred white and black- 

 brown, bars decreasing and irregular on outer pairs which are 

 usually mostly white, central pair usually suffused ash-brown ; 

 primaries black-brown with white shafts, about basal three -fourths 

 of inner webs white, from 6th inwards with white on outer webs and 

 tips ; secondaries ash-brown tipped white, bases of inner webs 

 white, innermost as scapulars ; primary-coverts black-brown, 

 tipped white ; greater coverts ash-brown edged all round and 

 slightly notched white ; median and lesser coverts ash-brown edged 

 and notched white, innermost median coverts tipped white and 



