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into bays like this, but keep more on the outer beaches. 

 The other one, with bUick under parts and dark back 

 finely speckled with yellow, is the Golden Plover, who 

 often visits our beaches and marshy meadows." 



" Do either of them ever nest up the river? " asked 

 Dodo. 



"No, indeed — you would have to travel many hun- 

 dreds of miles to find the lonely Arctic beaches they 

 both call home. They only come this way before they 

 take the long fall journey to South America, where 

 they winter ; and in tlie spring-time they are 

 usually in too great a hurry to stop.' 



" What do they look like very 

 near by ? " asked Dodo, avIio 

 always wanted de- 

 tails, while the boys 

 took a more gen- 

 eral sportsman- a,' 

 like interest. 



" The Turnstone " , ,Jtr* | * '^lii'^W 



is very trim and ^ ' '" ' - ..,J^^^^^'V-^m% 



pretty when seen 



1 ^11 1 American Golden Plover. 



close at hand, and 



from the pattern of the feathers is often called Calico- 

 bird. The Golden Plover is darker and not so con- 

 spicuously marked, especially at this season." 



The Turnstone 



Length nine and a half inches. 



In sunnner : Upper parts l)oldly variegated with black, white, 

 and reddish-brown ; tail black, with white base and tip. Under 

 parts white, with large black marks on the breast. Bill and e3^es 

 black ; feet orange, w ith a very small hind toe. 



