CHARADRIIDJE — THE PLOVERS — SQUATAROLA. 
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white, nearly pure ancl unspotted on the forehead ; sides of the neck and rump tinged with ashv, 
and having irregular transverse spots of brownish black on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts ; 
the brownish black frequently predominating on those parts, and the rump also frequently with 
transverse bars of the same. Lower part of the abdomen, tibia, and under tail-coverts, white. 
Summer plumage. 
Quills, brownish black, lighter on their inner webs, with a middle portion of their shafts white, 
and a narrow longitudinal stripe of white frequently on the shorter primaries and secondaries. 
Tail white, with transverse imperfect narrow bands of black. The black color of the under parts 
generally with a faint bronzed or coppery lustre, and presenting a scale-like appearance ; the 
brownish black of the upper parts with a greenish lustre. Bill and legs black ; iris brown. Younger 
and winter plumage : Entire upper parts dark brown, with circular and irregular small spots of 
white, and frequently of yellow, most numerous on the wing-coverts ; upper tail-coverts white. 
Under parts white, with short longitudinal lines and spots of dark brownish cinereous on the neck 
and breast ; quills brownish black, Avith a large longitudinal space of Avhite on their inner webs and 
also on the outer Avebs of the shorter primaries. Young : Upper parts lighter, and with the Avhite 
spots more irregular or less rounded ; narrow lines on the neck and breast more numerous. 
Total length about 11-^ inches ; wing, 7 -Jr ; tail, 3 inches; culmen, about 1.10 ; tarsus, 1.95 ; 
middle toe, 1.15. 
We can discover no difference between American specimens and those from Europe. In the 
young and Avinter plumage there is considerable A'ariation in the distinctness of the yellow Avash 
on the upper parts, the light markings of the upper surface being in some examples entirely of 
this color, while in others there is scarcely even a tinge of it. 
