CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 213 
Alaska, breeding in some places, but as a migrant in others. On 
the British Columbia coast it is always a migrant and not a common 
one. 
Preble, Low, Bell and other collectors record the turnstone from 
the Hudson bay region, Preble as morznella, the earlier collectors as 
interpres. Without specimens it is of course impossible to deter- 
mine the species to which records made before 1899 should go, but 
so far as known true interpres is, in North America, confined to 
Greenland and Alaska, an occasional specimen being taken farther 
south on both sides of the continent. Most of the earlier Alaskan 
references doubtless refer to true wterpres. The occurrence of 
intermediate forms makes it appear probable that morinella is at 
best only a sub-species. 
BREEDING Notes.—In June, 1864, a dozen birds were observed 
at Fort Anderson, and one was shot. This species breeds on the 
shores of Liverpool and Franklin bays, and on the lower Anderson 
river. Several nests were secured in the latter region; but none 
were met with in the Barren Grounds. Four was the maximum 
number of eggs in a nest, which was similar to that of the other 
waders. (Macfarlane.) 
284. Black Turnstone. 
Arenaria melanocephala (Vi1G.) STEJN. 1884. 
This species is far more plentiful on the coast of Bering sea than 
the preceding species and is one of the most abundant waders from 
Sitka north along the mainland and coast of Alaska. I found it 
also along the coast of the Arctic sea from Bering strait to Point 
Barrow, and it was also observed sparingly on St. Lawrence island, 
It breeds among the brackish pools on St. Michael island, and is 
found scattered over the brackish flats everywhere. (Nelson.) 
Although I did not find the nest and eggs of the bird, it breeds 
along the entire coast of the mainland of Alaska. It is one of the 
earliest arrivals in the vicinity of St. Michael and after the ice has 
left the shores it is ever on the alert for food along the beach. 
(Turner.) Four adult specimens taken at Orca, Prince William 
-sound, Alaska. (Grinnell.) Common at Homer, Alaska, during 
migration. (Figgins.) 
