A PHRIZID.E — ARENA RIIN.E : TURNS TONES. 



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silas (Gr. aTpeyJMs, strepsis, a turning over, \as, las, a stone), as in all former editions of the 

 Key ; but Arenaria Bkiss. 17i'A), antedates Strepsilas Illiger. J811, and must be adopted. 

 Fig. 535.) Turnstones. Bill shorter than head, not longer than tarsus, constricted at base, 

 then tapering to acute tip, almost a little recurved. Cul- 

 men straight or a little concave, especially over nostrils; 

 commissure straight or slightly recurved ; under outline 

 curving up from base, or straight to angle, then gonys as- 

 cending. Nasal fosste short and broad, about half length 

 of bill; grooving of under mandible short and shaUow. 

 Gouys longer than mandibular rami. Wings long and 

 pointed. Tail short, a little rounded, scarcely or not half 

 as long as wing. Legs short and stout ; tibiie little de- 

 nuded ; tarsus scutellate in front, reticulate on sides and 

 behind, about as long as middle toe and claw. Toes 4; hinder short, but as well developed as 

 in Sandpipers generally ; front toes cleft to base. Claws curved, ct)mpressed, acute. There 

 is one cosmopolitan species, the scientific (strepsilas) and vernacular (turnstone) names of 

 which are both derived from its habit of turning over {)ebbles along the shore in search of food ; 

 shared by the other species of the genus, A. melanoccphala. 



Fig. 535. — Bill of Turnstone, nat. 

 size. (Ad. nat. del. E. C.) 



Analysis of Species. 



Pied with black, white, and chestnut t'nterpres 



Blackish and white melanocephala 



A. inter'pres. (Lat. interpres, a factor, agent, go-between, interpreter. Prof. Xewt(ni tells 

 us ('Diet. ISiH). p 997), that the name on n i it. il witli Linna-us on the island of Gottland, July I, 



1741, under the mistaken be- 

 lief that this was the bird 

 there called Talk, a name 

 properly belonging to the 

 Kedshank, and equivalent to 

 Tattler or Tell-tale as used 

 by us for various Totanine 

 birds. Fig. b'.\6.) TiRX- 



.STONE. TOURNE-PIEKRE. 

 COI-LON-CHAUD. SeA I)»)T- 



TEUEL. vSka Lark. 8ea 

 QiTAiL. Skire Crake. 

 Sax i>-RixN ER. SroxE- 



PECKER. TaXGLE-PICKER. 



Magcjot Sxipe. IK)Rse- 

 KDOT SxiPE (from its eating 

 the .>*pawn of tiie horseslioo 

 crali). CiiKCKERED Snipe. Braxt Sxin;. IIkaxt 15iki>. 1Ji:i>-leggei> Plover. 



KkIi-I.KCS. I'.ISIlnl' I'l.oVKIi. Sl'AHKED-ISAlK I'l.OVER. CmK'KKN Pi.OVER. ClIirKKN- 

 niKM. ClIK KI.lNd. CaI.K O-IUKI). ( "AI.ICC »-UACK. ( 'ALICO-JACKET; Cnl'CKATrCK. 



Credock. .Jinny. .\ilnlt ^, in bncdini,' dress: I'icd aluivo with black, white, brown, 

 and chestnut-red; below, snowy, witli jet breast. Toji of head streaked with black ami 

 wliite. Forehead, cheeks, sides of head and back <>t neck white, witii Ji bar of black 

 coming up from side of neck to below eye, then cnmiiit,' forwanl and meeting or tending to 

 meet its fellow over base of bill, enclosing or iie.irly enclosing a white loral space, and another 



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Fio. 53G. — Turnstuiii, ! ii.il .^izl;. i riuiii Ilnhin.) 



