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GENUS STREPSILAS 111. 



The Turnstone is about the size of a Thrush, has the bill about as long 

 as the cranium, very slightly recurved, no dertrum or swollen tip. the maxil- 

 lary groove not carried on to the terminal third ; legs rather short, tarsus equal 

 to middle toe and claw in length, anteriorly transversely scutellated; a small 

 hallux present; toes cleft to the base, the soles broadened; wing long, the first 

 large quill the longest, the middle secondaries less than half its length. 



The absence of a dertrum, the short tarsus, and the toes with no basal 

 web serve to distinguish it from the Plovers, the short nasal groove from other 

 Celebesian Limicolae, the short legs, etc. from Himanto/ms. Almost cosmopolitan. 



^ 323. STREPSILAS INTERPRES (L.). 



Common Turnstone. 



Strepsilas interpres (Linn.); (1) Illiger, Prodr. 1811, 263; fll) Naum., Vog. Deutschl. VII, 

 303, t. 180 (1834); (III) Gld., B. Gt. Brit. IV, pi. 60, (1870); (IV) id., B. Austr. 1848, 

 VI, pi. 39; (5) id., Hb. B. Austr. 1865, H, 269; (6) Sclil., Mus. P.-B., Cursores, 

 1865, 43; (7) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 181; (8) Finsch & Hartl., Orn. 

 Centralpol. 1867, 197; (9) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 91; (10) Salvad., Cat. 

 Ucc. Borneo 1874, 320; (XI) Dresser, B. Europe VII, 555, pi. 532 (1875); 

 (12) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 433; (13) Oust., Bull. See. Pliilom. 1878, 

 183; (14) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 141; (15) Milne-Ed. & Grandid., Ois. Madag. 1879, 

 I, 512; (16) Finsch, Ibis 1880, 432; (17) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 900; (18) Meyer, 

 Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1881, 767; (19) Salvad., Orn. Pap. HI, 1882, 289; 

 (20) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, 11, 376; (21) Baird, Brew. & Ridgw., Water 

 B. N. Am. I, 1884, 119; (22) Seeb., Distr. Charadr. 1887, 410; f25; Rams., Tab. 

 List 1888, 20; (24) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 319; (25) BuUer, B. N. Zeal. 2-"i ed. 

 1888, n, 14; (26) Seeb., B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 331; (27) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 

 59; (28) Steere, List PMlipp. 1890, 26; (29) SaUad., Orn. Pap. Agg. 1891, 198; 

 (30) Styan, Ibis 1891, 504; (31) Wiglesworth, Av. Polyn. 1892, 63; (32) 

 DeLaTouche, Ibis 1892, 497; (33) Taczan., Faun. Orn. Sib. Or. 1893, 11, 845; 

 (34) Bourns & Worces., B. and M. Menage Exp. Pbilipp. 1894, 31; (35) Pearson 

 & Bidw., Ibis 1894, 234; (36) Everett, Ibis 1895, 34, 39; (37) Grant, Ibis 1896, 

 126; (38) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 180. 



a. StrepsUas coUaris (B.Meyer); (1) S. Miill., Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839—44, 90, 110; 



(2) id., Reizen Ind. Ai-cbip. 1858, pt. 11, 13. 



b. Charadrius interpres (1) Seeb., Brit. B. 1885, III, 12. 



c. Tringa interpres L.; (1) Gatke, Vogelwarte Helg. 1891, 524. 



d. Arenaria interpres (1) Sbarpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 92, 728. 

 "Lorie burik", Banka Id., Minabassa, Nat. Coll. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Naumann 11; Finsch & Hartl. 5; Salvador! 



10, 19; Dresser XI; Milne-Ed. & Grandid. 15; Legge 17; Baird, Brewer & 



Ridgw. 21; Seebobm 22; Sbarpe d 1; etc. 

 Figures and descriptions. Naumann II; Gould III, IV; Dresser XI; Seebobm 22; 



Finsch & Hartl. 8; Legge 17; Taczanowski 33; Sbarpe d 1; etc. 



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