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1274. StrepSilas interpres (Linn.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. 

 Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 320; Blyth, B. Burm^ p. 154; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 

 P. 555> pl- 5 Hume, Str t F. iv. p. 464; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 233 ; 

 Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 987; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 238; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 376. Cinclus interpres, Hume* Sir. F. i. p. 233; ii. p. 292. Tringa 

 interpres, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 248. The TURNSTONE. 



Strepsilas interpres. 



In winter the crown and hinder part of the head are dusky, edged very 

 narrowly with greyish brown; the lores pale brown, or in some specimens 

 greyish brown ; the chin and throat are white, also a patch on each side of 

 the neck, bordered in front along the sides of the white throat patch with 

 dusky or dark brown ; upper back, scapulars, rump, breast and sides of the 

 breast dusky or dark brown, according to season, edged with rusty or brownish 

 red ; some of the scapulars partly edged with [white ; tertials long, reaching 

 beyond the fifth quill, edged and tipped with rufous or red brown ; lesser 

 wing coverts, like the upper back, white at the shoulder ; the secondary 

 or greater coverts tipped with white, forming a conspicuous wing bar; 

 primaries and secondaries black, the inner webs of the former and tips of 

 the latter white ; back, lower surface of the body from below the breast, 

 also the thigh and upper and lower tail coverts white ; a patch of black 

 on the rump ; tail feathers white, with a subterminal black band, except 

 the central ones, which are entirely black. In the summer or breeding 

 plumage, the forehead, a band over the eye, lores and a patch behind the 

 eye are white ; the crown of the head is also white, broadly streaked with 

 black. There is also a black streak behind the white frontal patch, continued 



