BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. I5I 



This species constructs no nest, the eggs being upon the sand in 

 a sHght depression made by the scratching of the bird. Two eggs 

 in my cabinet agree with Audubon's description, being of a dull 

 cream-color, spotted with dark brown. This bird is well known to 

 the inhabitants by the name of Sea Pic. 



Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. V. pi. 324. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES. {Linn.) 

 Turnstone. 



Winter Plumage, Male. — Above, light, streaked and dashed with 

 dark brown ; an imperfect band of dark brown upon the jugulem ; 

 chin and upper part of throat, white ; sides of breast like the back ; 

 rest of the under parts, white; a distinct white band on the wing; 

 rump, white, but with a broad patch of black on the upper tail-cov- 

 erts ; tail, dark brown, the tips and basal half of the inner feathers, 

 and nearly two thirds of the outer feathers, white ; legs, reddish 

 orange ; bill, black. 



Length 8.65, wing 5.70, tail 2.60, tarsus i, bill .95. 



The Turnstone, while passing the winter at the south, becomes a 

 very different looking object from the beautiful bird which we are 

 in the habit of seeing upon our shores during the migrations. He 



