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tral feathers fuscous, the outer ones white tipped with grayish ; under 

 surface of body white, heavily marked with triangular spots of dark 

 neutral gray. 



Winter plumage, dark brownish gray above with the feathers edged 

 lightly with white ; crown streaked indistinctly with fuscous ; under 

 surface white; throat with scattered small spots of gray; sides of 

 head and foreneck streaked, and breast with narrow crescentic bars of 

 dark gray. 



Iris dark brown ; tip of bill black ; base of maxilla paler ; base of 

 mandible dull orange brown ; tarsus and toes greenish yellow ; claws 

 black. 



Measurements (from Ridgway, I.e., p. 60). — Males, wing 164-183 

 (170.9), tail 63-69 (65.2), exposed culmen 23-26 (24.2), tarsus 29- 

 30.5 (29.6) mm. 



Females, wing 169-181 (176), tail 64-66 (65), exposed culmen 

 23-26 (24.9), tarsus 29-31.5 (29.6) mm. 



Migrant from the north. Rare ; one taken at Bahia Piiias, Darien ; 

 numerous sight records at Panama Viejo, Panama. 



This curious shorebird, migrant from its Alaskan nesting grounds 

 south along the Pacific coast as far as Chile, was first reported by 

 Eugene Eisenmann (Auk, 1948, p. 605) from 4 seen at Panama 

 Viejo, August 14, 1947. Imhof (Auk, 1950, p. 256) found one with 

 turnstones at San Francisco de la Caleta, September 2, 1942, a little 

 farther west on the same beach. And Eisenmann (Auk, 1955, pp. 

 426-427) recorded others, in part observed by Maj. F. O. Chapelle, 

 May 15, August 11 and 19, October 6 and 16, 1954, and January 22 

 and June 27, 1955. I found one here January 5, 1964, and another 

 February 21, 1965. There are other sight records for this locality. 



The only specimen taken as yet in Panama is a male in the museum 

 of the University of Miami, collected September 11, 1961, by D. R. 

 Paulson during an oceanographic expedition with A. Glassell on his 

 yacht Argosy. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES MORINELLA (Linnaeus): Ruddy 

 Turnstone; Vuelvepiedras 



Tringa Morinella Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 249. (Coast of 

 Georgia.) 



A heavy-bodied shorebird, with short, orange legs and a broad, 

 heavily mottled, dark band on the breast ; in flight the black wings, 

 dark upper back, lower rump and the end of the tail are in prominent 

 contrast with white lower back. 



