9S Birr? OF British goana. 



Order CHARADRIIFORMES. 



Family CHARADRIIDJE. 



This family includes the Plovers (Charadrunce), which have 

 rather short legs and partially webbed toes ; the bill is somewhat 

 short and the dertrum much swollen except in Arenaria. 



Genus AHENARIA Briss. 



Arenan'a BrL^son, Om. v. p. 132, 1760. Tvj>e A. interpres Linn. 



This genus is characterized by the wedge-shaped bill with no 

 swollen dertrum. 



Fig. 26. — To show the wedge -sliajx^d bill. 



61. Arenaria morinella. 

 Turnstone. 



Arenaria morinella (Linn.), Syst. Xat. 12th ed. i. p. 219, 1766 (Coa.st 



of Florida I. 

 Arenaria interpres Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.s. xxiv. p. 92. 1S96 ; Quelch, 



Timehri 1 2; x. p. 268, lb96 (Coast Disti-ict;. 



*' White- winged Plover " (Quelch). 



Adult male. UpptT back, top of head, forehead, breast and 

 sides of neck, scapulars, primaries, upper tail-coverts, and tail 

 black or dark brown varied with chestnut on the upper back, 

 scapulars, and wings, and « ith white on the tail, wings, hind- 

 neck, sides of face, and throat ; lower back, rump, and under 



