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SHORE BIUDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



SUBFAMILY ARENARIIN^. TURNSTONES. 

 GENUS ARENARIA BRISSON. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES (Linn.). 







Summer. Arenaria interpres. Winter. 



Turnstone. 



CHICKEN PLOVER. BRANT BIRD. CALICO BACK. 



Adult in summer : 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 subter- 

 ini n.-i I 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 jugulum ; 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, 1; bill, .95. 



The Turnstone, Chicken Plover, or Brant Bird, as it is 

 variously called, is a cosmopolitan species. It is common on 

 both coasts of North America, and occasionally occurs in the Arenai-ia 

 interior, on the shores of the larger lakes and rivers. It breeds in the arctic 



