KEY TO THE SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



\pliri/a virgata. 



Rump, brownish or grayish ; upper tail coverts, 

 white, without black bands or spots ; tail, dark, 

 tipped with white ; axillars, white. A Pacific 

 species not found in Eastern North America. 



Surf Bird. 

 Aphriza virgata. 

 See page 79. 



Throat, white ; rump and upper tail coverts, white (not 

 banded) ; inner web of primaries not speckled. 



Turnstone. 

 "Chicken Plover. 1 



Arenaria interpres. 

 See page 80. 



Arenaria interpret. 



Throat, dusky; rump and upper tail coverts, white ; head and neck, black ; 

 a white spot on lores and white streaks on forehead. A Pacific species not 

 found in Eastern North America. 



Black Turnstone. 



Arenaria melanocephala. 

 See page 81. 



Rump, blackish ; middle upper tail coverts, black 



(not banded) ; inner web of primaries not speckled. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Grass Bird. 



Tringa maculata. 

 See page 45. 



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Tringa maculata. 



Trygnites subruflcollis. 



Inner webs of primaries, speckled. 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



Tryngites subruficollis. 

 See page 65. 



Section 6. Toes, 3. 



Breast, with two black bands ; under parts, white ; rump and upper tail coverts, 

 orange brown. 



Killdeer Plover. 



JEgialitis vocifera. 

 See page 74. 



