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KEY TO THE ^^'ATER I'.IRDS OF FLORIDA. 



This 

 common 

 the eggs 

 common 



Family APHRIZID.E. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 

 Subfamily ARENARIIN.'E. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES (//////.). 

 Turnstone. 



Adiclt in siii?imer : General upper parts mottled and 

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

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

 tail with subterminal band of black 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 ; liill, .95. 



the Arctic regions to South America and is 

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

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

 bird in Florida in winter. 



species ranges from 



Family ILEMATOPODID.E. Oyster-latltiers. 

 Genus Hi^MATOPUS Einn. 



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 flesh color. 



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



