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obtained at Monomoy Island, Massachusetts on September 8, 1892 

 (Bishop) ; and Wayne took a specimen on Dewees Island, South 

 Carolina, May 30, 1918. 



[Author's note. — For the author's views on the distribution of the 

 two forms of the turnstone, see his note on the distribution of 

 morinella. There is much individual variation in color, with a de- 

 cided sexual difference in size, which opens the question of wrongly 

 sexed specimens. The individual variation in size is still greater, so 

 much so that both extremes of both forms are very close together. 

 A large, dark female of morinelJa^ wrongly sexed, might easily be 

 recorded as inte7'pres. These facts cast some doubt on North Amer- 

 ican records of inter pres.l 



Egg dates. — Norway and Sweden: IG records, June 1 to 30; 8 

 records, June 7 to 13. Lapland and Finland: 14 records, May 23 

 to .July 8 ; 7 records, June 8 to 18. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES MORINELLA 



Range. — North America ; Central America ; islands of the Caribbean 

 Sea ; and South America. 



Breeding range. — Actual breeding records of the ruddy turnstone 

 are not numerous, so it is difficult to accurately define its breeding 

 range. From information available it appears that they breed east 

 from Alaska (Hooper Bay, Colville River Delta, Collinson Point, 

 and probably Demarcation Point) ; to Mackenzie (lower Anderson 

 River, Liverpool Bay, Franklin Bay, and probably Felix Harbor); 

 Franklin (probably Melville Island, Victoria Island, probably King 

 Oscar Land); probably Ellesmere and Grant Lands; and north- 

 western Greenland. Specimens have been obtained in southern 

 Mackenzie in June (Fort Resolution and Fort Rae), but there is not 

 yet any evidence of their breeding in that region. Eggs also have 

 been reported from "Hudson Bay " (Reinecke), but the record is too 

 indefinite to stand careful scrutiny. 



Nonbreeding individuals have been detected in summer as far south 

 as Chile (Sclater) ; Peru (Callao) ; the Galapagos Islands' (Baur and 

 Adams) ; Venezuela (Margarita and Aruba Islands) ; and the West 

 Indies (Carriacou and Jamaica). It also has been noted at this 

 season on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States, 

 as Florida (Bradentown, Passage Key, Fort De Soto, Key West, and 

 Daytona Beach) ; South Carolina (Frogmore, and Mount Pleasant) ; 

 North Carolina (Beaufort) ; Virginia (Hog Island, and Cape 

 Charles) ; New York (Fair Haven Light, Long Beach, and Gardiners 

 Island) ; Massachusetts (Monomoy Island, and Cape Cod) ; Louisiana 

 (Chandeleur Islands, and Breton Islands) ; Texas (Fort Brown, and 

 Corpus Christi) ; and California (Santa Cruz). 



