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283. Arenaria liiterprcs (' inn.). 



Turnstone. 



Trmj^a inUrprcs Lixx. -. N. ed. lo, I. 1758, T48. 

 ArenarUi inUrpres Vii ill. GJ . II. iii34, 102. 



[B515, V. ' J09, C 598.] 



Hab. Nearly cosinoiX)litan. In America from Greenland and 

 Alaska to the Siraits of Magellan ; more or less common in the 

 interior of North America, on the shor<rs of the Great Lakes and the 

 larger rivers, lirecds in high northern latitudes. 



284. Arenaria melanocepliala (Vig.). 



Black Turnstone. 



Strepsilas tnelanociphaliis ViG. Zool. Jour. IV. Jan. 1829, 356. 

 Arenaria melanocepliala Stejx. Auk, I. July, 1884, 229. 



[B 516, C 4o6rr, R 510, C 599.] 



Hab. Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Monterey, 

 California \ breeding in Alaska. 



Family HiEMATOPODIDiE. Oyster catchers. 



Genus H^MATOPUS Linn^us. 



Hamatopus Linx. S. N. ed. 10, I. 175S, 152. Type, /^. ostralegus 

 Linn. 



[285.] Haematopus ostralegus Linn. 



Oyster-catcher. 



Hcematopus oslralegus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. 



[B -, C — , R 506, C 595.] 



Hab. Sea-coasts of the Eastern Hei'iisphere ; occasional in Green- 

 land. 



286. Hsematopus palliatus Temm. 



American Oyster-catcher. 

 HcEtnatopus palliatus Temm. Man. 11. 1820, 532. 



