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addition to its food of worms and land insects, it frequents the shal- 

 low brooks and pools in search of such as live on the water. Ori 

 the wing it is very active, and at times mounts high in the air. The 

 nest of the Kildeer is of simple construction, usually formed like 

 that of the Piping Plover, which is a mere hollow in the ground ; 

 the eggs, four in number, are cream-colored, marked with brown- 

 ish black. 



By sportsmen, the Kildeer is seldom pursued, though sometimes 

 shot for market ; and I have been told that its flesh, especially in 

 the fall, is good eating. 



GENUS STREPSILAS — ILLIGER. 



TURNSTONE. 



[Bill shorter than the head, strong, tapering, compressed, blunt ; neck rather 

 short; body full ; wings long, of moderate breadth, and pointed ; tail rounded, 

 rather short, of twelve feathers ; tarsus equal to the middle toe, rather stout — 

 hind toe small ; fore toes with a narrow margin, free.] 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES— LINN. 



TURNSTONE. 



Tringa intcrpres, Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 Strepsilas interpres, Bonap. Syn. 

 S'-repsilas interpres, Turnstone, Sw. & Rich. 

 Turnstone or Sea Dotterel, Nutt. Man. 

 Turnstone, Strepsilas interpres, Aud. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character — Bill black ; feet orange ; the head and sides 

 of the neck streaked and patched with black and white; fore part 

 of the neck and upper portion of the sides of the breast, black ; low- 

 er parts, hind part of the back, and upper tail coverts white ; rump 

 dusky ; rest of the upper parts reddish-brown, mottled with black; 

 primaries dusky ; a band across the wings and the throat white. 

 Young with the head and neck all round, forepart of the back, and 

 sides of the breast, dusky brown, streaked and margined with 

 grayish-white ; wing coverts and tertials broadly margined with 

 dull reddish-brown. It can at all times be identified by its having 



