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KEY TO THE WATF:R IURDS OI" I'LORIDA. 



Family APHRIZID.E. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 

 Subfamily ARENARIIN.^. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



ARENARIA INTERPRE5 (//////.). 

 Turnstone. 



Adult in SHJiuner : (General upper parts mottled and 

 variegated with black, wliite, rufous, and tawny; throat 

 and breast black and white ; rest of under parts white : 

 tail with subterminal band of lilack tipped with white. 



Adult in winter : Above light, streaked and dashed 

 with dark brown ; an imperfect band of dark brown on 

 the jugulem; chin and upper part of the 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 coverts ; 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 Arctic regions to South America and is 

 common during migrations on the Atlantic coast. It breeds in high latitudes ; 

 the eggs are pale clay color mottled and lined with dull brown. It is a 

 common bird in Florida in winter. 



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Family ILEMATOPODID.E. Oyster-catchers. 

 Genus Hi^EMATOPUS Linn. 



H/EMATOPUS PALLIATUS Tcmm. 

 American Oyster=catcher. 



Winter plumage^ male : Head and neck blackish or very dark brown : back brown ; lower 

 part of breast and rest of under parts white ; eyelids, rump, tips of wing coverts, part of secon- 

 daries, and basal portion of the tail feathers white; bill orange, darkening at the tip (in summer 

 deep red) ; legs fiesh color. 



Length, 17.40; Wing, 10.05; Tail, 4.35 ; Tarsus, 2.30; Bill, 3.50. 



