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ries tapering and elongated. Tail rather short, or of mode- 
rate length, rounded, of twelve rounded feathers. Tongue 
tapering, grooved above ; oesophagus of moderate width ; 
proventriculus oblong ; stomach roundish, very muscular, its 
lateral and inferior muscles prominent, epithelium dense, 
longitudinally rugous ; intestine rather long and of moderate 
width ; coeca rather long. 
316. 1. Charadrius Helveticus, Linn. Black-bellied Plover. 
— -Bull-head. Ox-eye. 
Plate CCCXXXIV. Male and Young. 
An extremely diminutive hind toe ; bill and feet black. In sum- 
mer, the upper parts variegated with black, yellowish-brown, and 
white, the feathers being tipped with the latter ; forehead yellowish- 
white, the rest of the head and hind neck greyish-white, spotted with 
dusky ; hind part of rump, upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers white, 
transversely barred with brownish-black, the tail tipped with white, 
and having four dark bars on the middle feathers, and seven or eight 
on the outer webs of the rest ; primary quills and coverts brownish- 
black, the latter terminally margined with white ; shafts of the prima- 
ries about the middle, and part of the inner webs toward the base, 
white ; inner six with a white patch on the outer web toward the base, 
and margined with white externally ; outer secondary feathers white at 
the base, and margined with the same ; inner dusky, with marginal 
triangular white spots ,* a narrow ring round the eye, and a broad lon- 
gitudinal band on each side of the neck, together with the abdomen 
and lower tail-coverts, white ; loral space, cheeks, fore part of neck, 
breast, and axillar feathers, black. In winter, the upper parts spotted 
with pale yellow, the lower greyish- white, the throat, neck, and sides 
streaked with dusky, the axillars black. Young pale brownish-yel- 
low, mottled with dusky, rump whitish. After the second moult, the 
upper parts brownish-black, spotted with white, some of the spots yel- 
low ; fore part and sides of neck and body, greyish-white, mottled 
with brownish-grey, the rest of the lower parts white. 
MalCj 11 1 , 25 . 
From Texas along the coast to the northern extremity of the Conti- 
nent. Breeds from Virginia northward. Not abundant. 
Tringa helvetica and Squatarola, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 250, 252. 
Black-bellied Plover, Charadrius helveticus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 41. 
Summer. 
Charadrius helveticus, Bonap. Syn. p. 298. 
Grey Lapwing, Vanellus melanogaster, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v.ii.p. 370. 
Black-bellied or Swiss Plover, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 26. 
Black-bellied Plover, Charadrius helveticus, Aud. Om. Biog. v. iv. p. 280. 
