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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. Borkli. 
Charadrius virgininus, Borkli. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Car. Nat. Cur. 1834. xvi. pi. 18. 
Charadrius marmoratus, Wagl. 
This representative of tlie 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. Selby. 
Tringa Urvillii, Garnot, Ann. Ic. Nat. Jan. 1826. 
Vanellus cinctus, Less. Vo y. de la Coqu. Zool. p. 720. pi. xliii. 
Squatarola cincta, Jard. Sf 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, dor si parapterique plumis pallidiore marginatis ; 
remigibus primariis nigrescenti fuscis , pogoniis externis albo august b marginatis 
rhachibus albis ; uropygio cauddque obscurb fuscis, remigibus externis albo lath 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, f . 
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, bufly 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- 
