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2^), ifci^y. hi lliu soutlu'iii [lart ol' tliu SUitc, Mr. Koboii Kklgwuy fciivv 

 a pair on a sand-bar in the VVliite Jliver north oi' Wlieatland late in 

 May, 1885. Mr. Deane noted them at English Lake, May 17, 1891. 

 Mr. J. G. Parker, Jr., took specimens August 13, 1894, at Miller's. 

 It has been noted in Indiana May 1, and found continuously until 

 lato in August. They are often paired when they arrive and proceed 

 at once to nesting. They continue coming till June; consequently 

 the nesting season is much prolonged. 



Some thirty pairs were breeding along the beach within a space of 

 two miles, April 24, 1876. at Waukogan, ill. They nost on the flat, 

 po])l)ly ])eaeh between the sand-dunes and shore. (Nelson, Birds N. E. 

 111., p. 1 2o.) August 1, 1897, Mr. F. M. WoodruflP found downy young, 

 also three pairs nesting at Miller's, Ind. This gives a period of over 

 three months from the date given by Mr. Nelson for the breeding 

 season. Either there is an unusual extension of the season or 

 more than one brood is reared in a year. Prof. H. Duemling, of Ft. 

 Wayne, has a specimen in his collection taJcen near that place (Stock- 

 bridge). They are said to remain until the last of September. 



XXL Family APHRIZID^E. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 



n'. Hill iiointed, upturned at end ; tarsus not longer than bill. Arexakia. 61 



Si HFAMii.v ARENARIIN.K. TrRNSioxEs. 

 til. GsnuB ARENARIABrissom. 



119. {'2Sn). Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Turnstone. 



Ailull 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, 

 iiK^si of the secondaries, bases of the primaries, and bases and tips of 

 I lie tail feathers, white; bill, black; feet, orange. //( Winter. — White 

 parts as in summer, niost of other parts dusky or brownish. Imma- 

 ture. — Above, brownish-gray, feathers bordered with whitish; upper 

 tail coverts, white; throat, foreneck and breast, white, streaked with. 

 dusky; lower parts, white. 



Length, 9.00-9.90; wing, 6.00; bill, .80-.90; tarsus, 1.00. 



Uange. — Nearly cosmopolitan. In America, from Patagonia to 

 Greenland and Alaska. Breeds from Hudson Bay to the Arctic coast. 

 Winters from coast of Gulf States southward. 



