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Squatarola

SQUATAROLA.

Like " Charadrius " but has a small hind toe; nests on ground in tundras of both hemispheres ; eggs 4, about inter mediate in colour between those of Golden Plover and Lapwing.

Squatarola squatarola squatarola (L.). GREY PLOVER. Fr. Vanneau Pluvier ; Ger. Kiebitzregenpfeifer ; Ital. I'ivieressa ; Saved. Kust-pipare.

8' 2 summer. Above deep brown with white tips to feathers ; forehead and supercilium (continued down neck to sides of chest) white ; lores, face, throat, breast and abdomen black, vent white, under wing coverts white, axillaries black. In winter underparts are dull white with pale brown streaks. Bill black. Legs and

feet slaty grey. Wing 6 ? 188-203. Tarsus 45-49. Bill 27-31. Young are like winter adults, but tips of feathers are yellow as in " apricarius" but duller.

Breeds.—N. Russian tundras, Kolguev, Dolgoi, Nova Zembla ; in W. Siberia to Taimyr and in E. Arctic America. Migrates ; occurs in Continental Europe, W. Asia and Egypt on passage ; winters in British Isles, Mediterranean Basin, and Africa south to Cape Colony ; in America south to \Vest Indies and Brazil.

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