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FAMILY APHRIZID^: SURF BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. 



Genus ARENAE.IA Brisson, 1760. 



Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus). Turnstone. 



Tringa interpres hlNNjEva, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. 



Strepsilas interpres Illigeb, Prodr., 1811, 263. 



Arenaria interpres Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIV, 1819, 345. 



Popular synonyms: Calico-back. Beant Bibd. 



A rare migrant which may be looked for from June to about 

 the middle of September. It is almost invariably found in com- 

 pany with other maritime species along the sandy shores of 

 Lake Michigan and of our smaller lakes. I have on several 

 occasions seen adult birds in full breeding plumage. One taken 

 at Millers, Indiana, on the eighth of August, 1897, was in ex- 

 ceptionably rich plumage. Regarding this species, Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson wrote* in 1876 that it was a "common migrant along 

 Lake Michigan. Arrives May 15th in full breeding plumage 

 and is found until the first week in June. Returns early in 

 August, still in breeding plumage, which is exchanged for that 

 of winter during the last of the month. Departs about the 

 twentieth of September." 



ORDER GALLING: GALLINACEOUS 

 BIRDS. 



FAMILY TETRAONID^: GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss, 1820. 



Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus). Bob-white. 



Tetrao virginianus Linn^its, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 161. 

 Perdix virginiana Lath., Ind. Orn., II, 1790, 650. 

 Ortyx virginianus Jabd., Nat. Lib. Birds, IV, 101, pi. 10. 

 Colinus viginianus Stejnegeb, Auk, II, Jan. 1885, 45. 

 Popular synonyms : Quail. Paetbidqe. Ameeican Quail. Vib- 

 GiNiA Quail. 



Formerly the Bob-white was an abundant resident within 

 our limits, but it is now rare in this vicinity excepting possibly 

 the northern portion of Lake County, Illinois. It is to be re- 

 gretted that this valuable bird, which devours innumerable insect 

 pests and is so easily fostered, should have been driven from 

 this locality, chiefly by unscrupulous hunters but also by severe 

 winters in earlier years. 



The range of the Bob-white covers eastern North America 

 from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico and westward to the Great 



*BirdB of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 123. 



