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greater wing coverts like the rump ; lower row broadly tipped 

 with white; tail subrotund ; the two centre feathers blackish 

 brown tipped with yellowish white ; the lateral ones more or less 

 tinged with cinereous ; primaries black with white shafts. 



Ventral aspect. A line from the nostrils to the eye blackish 

 brown ; cheeks white, faintly marked with cinereous ; chin, sides 

 of throat, and throat, breast, belly, vent, tail and wing coverts, 

 and flanks white ; sides of breast faintly tinted with rufous and 

 tipped with cinereous. 



1st primary longest, the others graduated ; the long scapulary 

 feathers subequal to the 5th primary. Length 8j inches ; alar 

 expanse 14 inches. The winter plumage is the only state in which 

 we meet with this bird in the district. The dorsal aspect, when 

 moulting, is considerably varied with grey. 

 Sub genus Strepsilas. 

 Sub gen. char. Bill moderate, hard at the point, strong, 

 straight, slightly elevated at the tip, with a flattened ridge and 

 truncated tip ; nostrils basal, lateral, semiclosed by a membrane ; 

 feet 4-toed ; the thumb barely reaching the ground ; the ante- 

 rior toes connected at the base; 1st primary longest. 



jS^. interpres. The Turnstone. 



S. collar is of Temminck ! 



Tringa interpres of Wilson ! 



Tringa monnilla of Linnaeus ! young of 1st year. 



Strepsilas interpres. Baird I 

 v.s.p. Bill black ; legs orange yellow ; irides hazel ; eggs 4, 

 olive green spotted with brown. 



Dorsal aspect. A line from the ridge of the bill to above the 

 eyes including the frontlet, a line from the angle of the mouth 

 to the collar, the auriculars all black ; an orbicular spot in front 

 of the eye, another below the auriculars, and a third below the 

 collar, white ; crown and nape of neck streaked with black bor- 

 dered on the sides with white ; feathers of the back, scapulars, 

 and coverts varied with chesnut, black, with occasional white tips 

 to the feathers ; rump white ; upper row of tail coverts black ; 

 lower row white ; lateral tail feathers white, with a spot of black- 

 ish brown on the inner vanes ; bases of all the others white, 

 changing to blackish brown and tipped with white; primaries 

 blackish brown, white on the inner vanes near their insertions ; 

 shafts white. 



