A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

Subfamily CHARADRIINÆ.

Bill moderate, not longer than head, culmen flat and straight from base to the terminal swollen dertrum; first primary slightly the longest; tarsus covered on all sides with small hexagonal scales; toes webbed at base; hind toe minute or absent.

Genera.

• a¹. Larger; wing more than 165 mm.; upper parts much spotted.
  • b¹. A minute hind toe; axillars sooty black. Squatarola (p. [103])
  • b². No hind toe; axillars gray or white. Charadrius (p. [104])
• a². Smaller; wing less than 165 mm.; upper parts nearly uniform gray or brown.
  • b¹. Larger; wing, 140 to 165 mm.; bill stouter. Ochthodromus (p. [105])
  • b². Smaller; wing, 100 to 115 mm.; bill more slender. Ægialitis (p. [109])

Genus SQUATAROLA Leach, 1816.

This genus is similar to Charadrius but differs in having a minute hind toe; the character is scarcely of generic value.

90. SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA (Linnæus).

GRAY PLOVER.

• Tringa squatarola Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149.
• Squatarola helvetica Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 182; Hand-List (1899), 1, 152; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 17; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 22.

Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cebu (McGregor); Cuyo (Meyer); Luzon (Sanches); Mindanao (Everett); Negros (Layard); Palawan (Whitehead); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino). Subarctic regions, south in winter to Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and South America.