This representative of the golden plover of Europe and North America, is common on the banks of the Plata in large and small flocks. It is found also, according to Meyer, in Chile.
1. Squatarola cincta. Jard. & Selby.
Tringa Urvillii, Garnot, Ann. Ic. Nat. Jan. 1826.
Vanellus cinctus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. Zool. p. 720. pl. xliii.
Squatarola cincta, Jard. & Selby’s Illust. Orn. pl. 110.
Charadrius rubecola, Vig. Journ. iv. p. 96.
I obtained specimens of this bird in Tierra del Fuego, where it inhabited both the sea shore and the bare stony summits of the mountains; at the Falkland Islands, where it frequented the upland marshes; and at Chiloe, where I met with large flocks in the fields, not near the coast.
2. Squatarola fusca. Gould.
S. vertice corporeque supra fuscis, dorsi parapterique plumis pallidiore marginatis; remigibus primariis nigrescenti fuscis, pogoniis externis albo angustè marginatis rhachibus albis; uropygio caudâque obscurè fuscis, remigibus externis albo latè marginatis et terminatis; fronte, genis, gulâ, abdomine postico, caudæeque tegminibus inferioribus flavescenti albis, colli pectorisque lateribus fuscis, colli plumis fusco pallido terminatis; pedibus nigris.
Long. tot. 8 unc.; alæ, 5⅝; caudæ, 3; tarsi, 1⅜; rostri, ⅞.