202 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
(6) A white ring round neck. 
(1) No dark band across breast. 
gialitis alecandrina (Kentish Plover). 
(2) A dark band across breast. 
AY. dubia (Little Ringed Plover). 
STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 223 ; 
Legge, p. 900). 
The Turnstone. 
(Plate I., fig. 5.) 
Description.—Winter : Top and sides of head brown with 
darker streaks ; upper back, scapulars, tertiaries, and wing 
coverts dark brown with slightly paler edges, some of the 
under scapulars being partly or wholly white ; lower back, 
rump, and longer tail coverts white; shorter tail coverts 
dark brown ; wing quills blackish-brown with white shafts, and 
some white on the inner webs ; some of the later secondaries 
almost or wholly white. Tail white at the base, the outer half 
brown with white edges to all but the central pair of feathers ; 
the outer pair of feathers almost wholly white. Foreneck 
and sides of breast brown ; the rest of the lower parts with 
wing lining white. 
Summer : Head, chin, and throat white, with black streaks 
on the crown ; a black band from eye to eye across the fore- 
head and a black patch below the eye. The back, scapulars, 
tertiaries, and wing coverts are mingled black and chestnut. 
A partial collar on the side of the neck, the foreneck, breast, 
and sides are black ; remainder of lower parts white. 
Bill black ; iris brown ; legs and feet orange-red ; claws 
blackish. 
Length 8°5; wing 6°2; tail 2°5; tarsus 1; bill from gape 1. 
Distribution.—A migrant during the north-east monsoon, 
fairly common on the coast from Jaffna to Mannar ; rarer on 
the east coast, but met with as far south as Hambantota ; 
a mere straggler to the west coast south of Puttalam. 
Of almost world-wide distribution, breeding in high northern 
latitudes and wintering in the south ; not, as a rule, found 
away from the coast. 
