FAMILY APHRIZIDjE SURF BIKD8 AND TUKNSTONES. 



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FAfllLY APHRIZID/E. 

 Surf Birds and Turnstones. 



SUBFAMILY ARENARIIN^. 

 Turnstones. 



Toes, four; lower back and rump, white 

 with black band. 



Summer. 



Turnstone. 



Adult in Slimmer: General upper parts, mottled and variegated with black, white, rufous, 

 aud tawny; throat and breast, black and white; rest of underparts, white; tail, with subter- 

 mliial band of black, tipped witli white. 



Adult in winti'r : Above, light, streaked and dashed with dark brown; an imperfect band 

 of dark brown on the jugulum ; chin aud upper part of the throat, white ; sides of breast, like 

 tlie back; rest of the uuderparts, white; a distinct white band on tlic wing; rump, white, but 

 with a broad patch of black on the upper tail coverts ; tail, dark brown, the tips and basal half 

 of the inner feathers, aud nearly two thirds of tlie outer featliers, white; legs, reddish orange; 

 bill, black. 



Length, 8.65; wing, 5.70; tail, 2.60; tarsus, 1; bill, .95. 



Arenaria inteijires. Turnstone. 

 See No. 232. 



