BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 153 
himself, is disinclined to let his odlogical acquisition lend its 
rush light to the State Natural History Survey. Dr. Hvoslef 
writes me that he obtained the species in Lanesboro on the 
first and fourth of August, 1884. Mr. Lewis did not meet 
with the nests in Becker county, but found the birds occasion- 
ally in July and August. Ihave seen flocks still flying about 
in one year as late at the 20th of October, but this was excep- 
tional. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Small, wings long; toes connected at base, especially the 
outer to the middle toe; front, throat, ring around the neck, 
and entire upper parts, white; a band of deep black across the 
breast, extending around the back of the neck below the 
white ring; band from the base of the bill, under the eye, 
and wide frontal band above the white band, black; upper 
parts light ashy-brown, with a tinge of olive; quills brownish- 
black, with their shafts white in the middle protion, and occa- 
sionally a lanceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter 
primaries; shorter tertiaries edged with white; lesser coverts 
tipped with white; middle feathers of the tail ashy olive- 
brown, with a wide subterminal band of brownish-black, and 
narrowly tipped with white; the two outer tajl feathers white, 
others intermediate like the middle, but widely tipped with 
white; bill orange-yellow, tipped with black; legs yellow. (_} 
Length, 7; wing, 4.75; tail, 2.25. 
Habitat, Arctic and Subarctic America. 
Family APHRIZIDUE. 
ARENARIA INTERPRES (L.).  (283.) 
TURNSTONE. 
I can only record this species as extremely rare, as I have 
but a few instances of its observation amongst my notes for 
almost thirty years. 
The earliest was in the fall of 1867, when I found it in a 
collection of mounted birds, the individual having been ob- 
tained recently in a flock of Sandpipers. on the Mississippi 
river just below St. Paul. 
I saw no more until 1874, which I obtained from another 
flock of Sandpipers near Minneapolis, since which one or two 
have come into our market in strings of scolopacine birds, and 
always in autumn. 
