ARENARIA. 99 
Suborder CHARADRII. 
Family CHARADRIIDZ. 
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 brown, occasionally black and 
reddish. This family includes all the stilts, curlews, godwits, snipes, 
sandpipers, and plovers. 
Subfamilies. 
a. Toes not laterally scalloped; no serrated edge on back of tarsus. 
b*. Tarsus more than twice as long as middle toe with claw; naked portion of 
thigh much longer than middle toe with claw...... Himantopodine (p. 113) 
ob. Tarsus less than twice as long as middle toe with claw; naked portion of 
thigh much shorter than middle toe with claw. 
ec’. Culmen with a decided dertrum or arched swelling at tip; tarsus reticulate 
behind. 
da. A small fleshy wattle in front of eye; front of tarsus covered with large 
eraNs Verse; sem les ts his cotta ee Lobivanelline (p. 101) 
d*, No eye wattle present; tarsus covered with small hexagonal scales. 
Charadriine (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........ Arenariine (p. 99) 
d. Tarsus with transverse plates both before and behind (except Numenius 
which has a long decurved bill) ; bill usually much longer than head, 
either straight or curved, the tip usually soft. 
er OS WEDDEGs Rb; DESC 5.2.0 o a. saccenecs note see ee eee Totanine (p. 114) 
co hoesrelett tortne Dases--c). 226-20... eee Scolopacine (p. 132) 
a*. Toes with lateral lobes; tarsus with the posterior edge serrated. 
Phalaropodine (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 behind; toes without 
webs; hind toe present. 
88. ARENARIA INTERPRES (Linnzus). 
TURNSTONE, 
Tringa interpres LINN&HUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 148. 
Arenaria interpres SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 92; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 146; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 3; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 22. 
Strepsilas interpres BLANFORD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 223, fig. 50 
(head). 
Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan 
Sulu (Guwillemard); Cebu (McGregor); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (White- 
