G-enus SQUATAROLA. 
Bill straight, stout, thick at the base, terminal third hard, elevated and concave ; gonys 
correspondingly inflated ; nostrils linear, lateral, placed in a pronounced groove reaching to the 
horny tip. Wings long, pointed; the 1st quill the longest. Tail of 12 feathers, short and 
cuneate. Legs and feet strong ; tarsus tolerably short and reticulate ; outer toe connected to 
the middle at the base by a web ; hind toe minute. 
SQUATAEOLA HELVETICA. 
(THE GREY PLOVER.) 
Vanellus helveticus, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 106. no. 4. 
Tringa helvetica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766). 
Charadrius helveticus , Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766), ex Brisson. 
Charadrius squatarola (L.), Gould, B. of Europe, pi. 302 (1837) ; Von Middendorff, Sibir. 
Reise, ii. p. 209 (1853). 
Squatarola helvetica (Linn.), Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 12 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 262 (1849) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 635 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. of Austr. ii. 
p. 224 (1865) ; Layard, B. of S. Afr. no. 562 (1867) ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 6 
(1871); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 236 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 228; 
id. ibid. 1874, p. 287 ; Adam, t. c. p. 338 ; Salvadori, Uccelli di Born. p. 313 (1874) ; 
Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 159 (1875); Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. p. 226; Hume, 
Str. Feath. 1876, p. 11 ; Scully, t. c. p. 184 ; Armstrong, t. c. p. 338 ; Legge, t. c. 
p. 245 (first record from Ceylon) ; Seebohm & Harvie Brown, Ibis, 1876, p. 222, pi. v. ; 
Butler, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 222; Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 455; id. ibid. 
1879, viii. (List Ind. B.) p. 112. 
Pluvialis varius (Briss.), Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Cursores, p. 53 (1864). 
Charadrius varius (Briss.), Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1012 (1874). 
The Swiss Sandpiper, Latham ; Vanneau-Pluvier, Buff. ; Grey Sandpiper of some ; Taram- 
bola, Portuguese ; de GoudJcievit, Dutch ; Kiebitzregenpfeifer, German ; Chorlito, 
Spanish (Saunders); Bedolin, Spanish; Krungi, Amoor Land (Schrenck). Chullok, 
Turki (Scully); Burra Batan, Hind. (Jerdon); Chilugan, Java (Horsf.); Abu hadjar, 
Arabic (Von Heuglin). 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 12'0 to 12 - 0 inches ; wing 8'0 to 8'5, expanse 2 6 '5 ; tail 3'2 ; tarsus 2 - 0 
to 2'1 ; middle toe and claw 1*37 to 1/4 ; bill to gape 1-3. 
Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dark greyish blue or plumbeous. 
Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, upper surface (with the exception of the tail-coverts), and wings dark glossy brown, 
the feathers tipped and marginally spotted with white, and the shafts black ; on the scapulars and wing-coverts 
the spots are large and take the form of bars, the intervening spaces being blackish ; greater coverts broadly 
tipped and edged with white ; quills and primary-coverts glossy blackish brown, the coverts with broad, and the 
inner primaries with narrow w’hite tips ; the latter white across the centre, and the secondaries mostly white, 
