180 AOKTU AMERICA y UlRDS. 



Gents APHRIZA Ai-di-bon. (Page 179, pi. LY., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Summer ailnll : Head, neck, back, and scapulars spotted and streaked -with 

 dusky and whitish, the seaiJuiars with a few large, irregular spots of rufous; 

 upper tail-eovertH, basal half of tail, a broad band across ends of greater wing- 

 coverts, tip of tail, and lower parts from breast backward, white, the sides and 

 under tail-coverts spotted with dusky. Winier adult: Head, neck, breast, and 

 most of upper parts plain dusky, or brownish slate ; white areas as in summer. 

 Young : Upper parts (except upper tail-coverts, etc.") brownish graj', the feathers 

 narrowly bordered with whitish ; throat, fore-neck, and breast white, streaked with 

 dusky grayish ; lower pai'ts and upper tail-coverts white. Length about 10.00, 

 wing 7.00, culnien .95-1.00, tarsus 1.20-1.25, middle toe .90-.95. Hub. Pacific 

 coast of America, from Alaska to Chili; Sandwich Islands? 



282. A. virgata (G.mf.i..). Surf Biri 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. (Page 179, pi. LV., fig. 3.) 



(^Nest on or near sea-beach, consisting of little more than a mere depression in 

 sand, gravel, or shingle. E/jgs 2-4, more or less pyriform-ovate. light olive, speckled 

 with brownish.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Lower parts (except chest), upper part of rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and greater wing-coverts, white; rest of plunuige chiefly dusky, the 

 upper parts sometimes varied with white and rufous. 



a'. Throat white. AihiH : Upper parts varied, more or less, with rufous ; head 

 mostly white ; chest uniform deep black- Young : Upper parts without 

 rufous, but the feathers with ochraceous or buffy margins; head mostly 

 dusky ; chest mottled dusky. Doicmj young (about three days old, fide 

 Collett): "Blackish gray, slightlj' washed with yellowish, and here and there 

 tipped with black ; along the crown is a narrow black hand reaching to the 

 forehead, though not quite to the base of the bill ; a similar stripe extends 

 from the base of the upper mandible to the C3'c; and there is a black spot at 

 the gape; sides of the throat gray; belly white; wing and scapulars colored 

 like the back." (Dresser.) Length 9.00-9.90, wing 6.00. culmen .80-.90, 

 tarsus 1.00. Eggs 1.5S X 113. light grayish olive, thickly sprinkled and 

 speckled with vandj'kc-brown. Ifnh. Entirely cosmopolitan, but chiefly 

 along sea-coasts 2S3. A. interpres (Linn.). Turnstone. 



"'. Throat dusky. Summer adult: Uj^iicr ])arts uniform iiron/.y lirownish black; 

 head, neck, and chest similar, with white streaks on forehead and clicst. niid 

 a large white spot on lores. Tr/«/(T plumage : Similar to suniiiier adult, but 

 head, neck, and chest uniforiu brownish dusky. Young: Similar to winter 



