ARENARIA. 99 



Suborder CHARADRII. 

 Family CHARADRIID^. 



Bill slender, in some very long, straight, occasionally gently curved; 



tail short and nearly square; legs moderately long to very long; plumage 



(except in Rostratula) white, gray, and bro\\Ti, occasionally black and 



reddish. This family includes all the stilts, curlews, godwits, snipes, 



sandpipers, and plovers. 



Subfamilies. 



o^ Toes not laterally scalloped; no serrated edge on back of tarsus. 



fc\ Tarsus more than twice as long as middle toe with claw: naked portion of 



thigh much longer than middle toe with claw Himantopodinae (p. 113) 



b-. Tarsus less than twice as long as middle toe with claw; naked portion of 

 thigh much shorter than middle toe with claw, 

 c^. Culmen with a decided dertrum or arched swelling at tip; tarsus reticulate 

 behind. 

 d}. A small fleshy wattle in front of eye : front of tarsus covered with large 



transverse scales Lobivanellinae (p. 101) 



d-. No eye wattle present; tarsus covered with small hexagonal scales. 



Charadriinse (p. 102) 

 c^. Culmen without a dertrum at tip. 



d^. Tarsus with transverse plates in front and hexagonal scales behind; bill 



short, less than head; culmen nearly straight Arenariinae (p. 99) 



d". Tarsus with transverse plates both before and behind (except Nnmenius 

 which has a long decurved bill) ; bill usually much longer than head, 

 either straight or curved, the tip usually soft. 



e\ Toes webbed at base Totaninae (p. 114) 



e-. Toes cleft to the base Scolopacinae (p. 132) 



a^. Toes with lateral lobes; tarsus with the posterior edge serrated. 



Phalaropodinae (p. 149) 



Subfamily ARENARIIN.^. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson, 1760. 



Bill pointed, culmen straight and flattened for basal half; nostril 

 linear, situated in a groove which extends half the length of bill; wing 

 long and pointed; first primary decidedly longest; tarsus short with 

 transverse plates in front and hexagonal scales ])ehind; toes without 

 webs; hind toe present. 



88. ARENARIA INTERPRES (Liuna?us). 



TURNSTONE. 



Tringa interpres Linn^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 148. 



Arenaria interpres Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 92; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 146; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (19021. 2, 3; McGregob 

 and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1906) , 22. 



Strcpsilas interpres Blaxford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1808). 4, 223, fig. 50. 

 (head). 



Bantayan {McG7-egor) ; Bohol {Everett) ; Cagayaiicillo (MeGregor) ; Cagayan 

 Sulu (GuUlemard) ; Cebu (McGregor); Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (White- 



