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into bays like this, but keep more on the outer beaches. 

 Tiie other one, witli bhick under parts and dark back 

 finely speckled with yellow, is the Golden Plover, who 

 often visits our beaches and marshy meadows." 



'' Do either of them ever nest up tlie river? " asked 

 Dodo. 



"No, indeed — you would have to travel many hun- 

 dreds of miles to tind the lonely Arctic beaches they 

 both call home. They only come this way before they 

 take the long fall journey to South America, where 

 they winter ; and in the spring-time they are 

 usually in too great a hurrj^ to stop." 



" What do they look like very 

 near by ? " asked Dodo, who 

 always wanted de- 

 tails, wdiile the boys .. 

 took a more gen- 

 eral sportsman- ^^ ^ 

 like interest. 



"The Turnstone ^ 

 is very trim and 

 pretty when seen 

 close at hand, and 

 from the pattern of the feathers is often called Galico- 

 bird. The Golden Plover is darker and not so con- 

 spicuously marked, especially at this season." 



American Golden Plover. 



The Turnstone 



Length nine and a half iiiclies. 



In sunnner : Upper parts boldly variegated with black, white, 

 and reddish-brown ; tail black, with white base and tip. Under 

 parts white, with large black marks on the breast. Bill and eyes 

 black ; feet orange, with a very small hind toe. 



