BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
BEETLE-HEAD. BULL-HEAD. SWISS PLOVER. 
Charadrius SQUATAROLA. 
Char. Summer plumage : above, spotted black and white or ashv, 
beneath, black Winter |)lumage. above, spotted black and brownish yel- 
low ; beneath, black mixed with white. Distinguished from all other 
Plovers by having a hind toe. Length about 12 inches. 
Nest. On dry hill-side ; a slight depression in the soil, lined with a few 
leaves and bits of grass. 
Eggs. 4, buffish olive or greenish drab thickly marked with brown- 
ish black ; 2.00 X 1.40. 
The Black-bellied or large Whistling Field Plover is met 
with in most parts of the northern hemisphere, and in .America 
is known to breed from the open grounds of Pennsylvania to 
the very extremity of the Arctic regions. It is common around 
