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brow white or buffv white; wing featlicrs black witli white shafts. Aditll winter: 

 With no black on under parts, which are whitish on the throat and belly and light 

 brownish streaked with grey elsewhere, more streaks on the chest ; usnallv less yellow 

 above than in snmnier. Yoioio : Similar to adults but with more golden above; crown 

 blacker. Length 9.85-10.00, wing 6.35-6.65, tail 2.65-2.90, culmen .85-1.00, tarsu.s 

 1. 60-1. 92 (1.70), toe 1. 20-1. 32, depth of bill .25. Hah. Breeding in Northern Asia 

 and Alaska, southward to Polynesia. Hawaiian Islands. The following table of meas- 

 urements is taken from specimens in the Museum series: 



MaU- Mak- Mak'. Mak-, Male- l-'tiiiak. l-Vinale. I'einak-. 



Leiig^tli 9.90 9.85 10.00 9.75 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 



Win,a: 6.65 6.40 6.50 6.55 6.35 6.45 6.75 6.50 



Tail 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.72 2.80 2.65 2.80 2.75 



Culmen .98 .98 1.00 .90 1.00 .85 .90 .97 



Tarsus 1.85 1.92 1.70 1.60 1.70 1.70 1.76 1.75 



Toe 1.25 1.30 r.25 1.20 I. ,^2 1.25 1.30 1,25 



Depth of hill .25 ,26 .25 .25 .26 .2s .26 .26 



52. C. domin'icus fulvus-' (C.mki, i Pacific Golden Plover, Kolea. 

 PI. XX\-., 9397, 9897. 



F.\Mii.v APHRI^'ID^.— Surf Birds .wn TrRxsToxRs. 



Genus. 

 Nasal grooves not more than half the length of the upper mandible; tail slightly 

 rounded; terminal half of the bill pointed ( Page 29. ) Arena'ria. 



t;Kxi:s ARENA'RIA P.kis.s().n. 



Head white and streaked with black, or head blackish brown; throat white, 

 followed bj- a broad black band. Fall adult male: General color above black mixed 

 with chestnut or parth' chestnut feathers; entire rump pure white; tipper tail coverts 

 black, longer ones white; quills black with white shafts; crown of head and hind neck 

 white; lores white; sides of neck, fore neck and breast black; throat white; abdomen 

 white. Female: Duller all over and with less chestnut. Winter: Above nearly uni- 

 form dusk}' brown, edges of feathers asli^- brown; head uniform brown like the back; 

 hind neck and side of neck ashj' mottled with dusky centres. Yoiiug: General color 

 above duskj' brown; throat and under surface of body white. Length about 8.00, wing 

 5.60-5.95, tail 2.40-2.50, culmen .88-.90, tarsus .95-1.05, toe 1.05, depth of beak .30. 

 Hab. Cosmopolitan. Hawaiian Islands. 



PI. XXV., 8726. 9174. 53. A. inter'pres" ( Lixx. ). Turnstone, Akekeke. 



31 Mr. nenshaw adds Sqimtaivla sqitataii>la (l.iiiii.) from Hawaii. (Avik, XVII.. p. km. 



3= It i.s prohalile that .-1. hileifitn (Linn.) and .(. mflaiinc-f^lirthi (Vii;.) koth visit tlu- islands. However. 1 have seen no specimens of the 

 latter that ha\e keen taken in the jjroup. 



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