744 Report oi' State GtEologist. 



35, 1879. In the southern paxt of the State, Mr. Robert Ridgway saw 

 a pair on a sand-bar in the White River north of Wheatland late in 

 May, 1885. Mr. Deane noted them at English Lake, May 17, 1891. 

 Mr. J. G. Parker, Jr., took specimens August 13, 1894, at Miller's. 

 It has been noted in Indiana May 1, and found continuously until 

 late in Aiigust. They are often paired when they arrive and proceed 

 at once to nesting. They continue coming till June; consequently 

 the nesting season is much prolonged. 



Some thirty pairs were breeding along the beach within a space of 

 two miles, April 34, 1876, at Waukegan, 111. They nest on the flat, 

 pebbly beach between the sand-dunes and shore. (Nelson, Birds N. E. 

 111., p. 133.) August 1, 1897, Mr. F. M. WoodrufE found downy young, 

 also three pairs nesting at Miller's, Ind. This gives a period of over 

 three months from the date given by Mr. Nelson for the breeding 

 season. Either there is an unusual extension of the season or 

 more than one brood is reared in a year. Prof. H. Duemling, of Ft. 

 Wayne, has a specimen in his collection taken near that place (Stock- 

 liridge). They are said to remain until the leist of September. 



XXI. Family APHRIZID^. Surf Birds and Turnstones, 



a^. Bill pointed, upturned at end; tarsus not longer than bill. Arenarta. 61 



Subfamily AEENAEIINjE. Tuknstones. 

 61. Gkhus ARBNARIA Bbissok. 



119. (283). Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Turnstone. 



AduU in Summer. — Pied above, with black, white, brown, and 

 chestnut red, the latter color wanting in winter and in young birds; 

 below, from the breast (which is more or less completely black), throat, 

 most of the secondaries, bases of the primaries, and bases and tips of 

 the tail feathers, white; bill, black; feet, orange. In Winter. — White 

 parts as in summer, most of other parts dusky or brownish. Imma- 

 ture. — Above, brownish-gray, feathers bordered with whitish; upper 

 tail coverts, white; throat, foreneck and breast, white, streaked with 

 dusky; lower parts, white. 



Length, 9.00-9.90; wing, 6.00; bill, .80-.90; tarsus, 1.00. 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. In America, from Patagonia to 

 Greenland and Alaska. Breeds from Hudson Bay to the Arctic coast. 

 Winters from coast of Gulf States southward. 



