Family APHRIZID^. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 



Subfamily ARENARIIN^. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES (Linn.). 



125. Turnstone. (283) 



Adult, in summer: — Pied above, with black, white, brown and chestnut-red, 

 the latter color wanting in winter and in young birds ; below, from the breast 

 (which is more or less completely black); throat, most of the secondaries, bases 

 of the primaries, and bases and tips of the tail feathers, white ; bill, black ; feet, 

 orange. Length, 8-9 inches; wing, 5^-6; tail, 2h; bill, |, almost recurved; 

 tarsus, 1 ; tibiaj, bare but a little way. 



Hab. — Nearly cosmopolitan. In America, from Greenland and Alaska, to 

 the Straits of Magellan ; more or less common in the interior of North America, 

 on the shores of the Great Lakes and the larger rivers. Breeds in high latitudes. 



Nest, a hollow scratched in the earth, lined with bits of grass. 



Eggs, two to four; greenish-ash, spotted, blotched and dotted irregularly 

 with yellowish and umber-brown. 



In the " Birds of Ohio," Dr. Wheaton says that Mr. Sinnett 

 observed this species on the coast of Texas in the breeding season, 

 and he believes that they breed there. 



The beautifully marked Turnstone is a bird of nearly cosmopolitan 



