key to the water birds of florida. 



Family APHRIZID.E. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 

 Subfamily ARENARIIN/E. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



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ARENARIA INTERPRES (/;///.). 

 Turnstone. 



Adult in sHviincr : 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, S.65 : Wing, 5.70 ; Tail, 2.60 : Tarsus, i ; Bill, .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-catchers. 

 Genus H/EMATOPUS Linn. 



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. 



