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Wattled and Spurred Plovers, tire former having a lappet of 
bright coloured sbin on the face, while the spur, in those 
genera which possess it, like the Nile Plover {Hoplopierus 
speciosus), is often quite a formidable weapon. In England, 
however, none of these forms have as yet made their appearance 
in a wild state, and all our species are unarmed and un- 
decorated. 
THE GREY PLOVERS. GENUS SQUATAROLA. 
Squatarola, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. & Birds, Brit. Mus. 
p. 29 (1816). 
Type, S. helvetica (Linn.). 
In the first group of Plovers, to which the genus Squatarola 
belongs, the inner secondaries are always very long and pointed. 
They are all birds of rapid flight, and very different in the 
latter respect from the slower and more flapping Lapwings. 
The Grey Plover, which is the only species of the genus 
Squatarola, puts on a black breast in summer, like the Golden 
Plovers (Charadrius), but it is easily distinguished from the 
latter by {.he presence of a small hind- toe. 
I. THE GREY PLOVER. SQUATAROLA HELVETICA. 
Tringa helvetica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766). 
Pluvialis squatarola, Macg. Brit. B. iv. p. 86 (1852). 
Squatarola helvetica. Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 455, pis. 515, fig. 
2, 517, fig. 2, 518, fig. 2 (1871) ; B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 
158 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarr. Brit B. iii. p. 278 (1883) ; 
id. Man. Brit. B. p. 535 (1889); Sharj^e, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xxiv. p. 182. 
Charadrius helveticus, Seebohm, Brit. B. iii. p. 44 (1886). 
Squatarola cinerea, Lilford. Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xviii. {1891). 
Adnlt Male. — General colour above mottled with bars of black 
and ashy-white, the latter in the form of notches and tips on 
the feathers ; scapulars and wing-coverts like the back, the 
greater series edged with white, and the inner ones notched ; 
quills black, with the middle of the shaft white, and with white 
on the inner webs, extending on the inner primaries to the 
