180 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus APHRIZA Aupupon. (Page 179, pl. LV., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Summer. adult: Head, neck, back, and scapulars spotted and streaked with 
dusky and whitish, the scapulars with a few large, irregular spots of rufous; 
upper tail-coverts, basal half of tail, a broad band across ends of greater wing- 
coverts, tip of tail, and lower parts from breast backward, white, the sides and 
under tail-coverts spotted with dusky. Winter adult: Head, neck, breast, and 
most of upper parts plain dusky, or brownish slate; white areas as in summer. 
Young: Upper parts (except upper tail-coverts, etc.) brownish gray, the feathers 
narrowly bordered with whitish ; throat, fore-neck, and breast white, streaked with 
dusky grayish; lower parts and upper tail-coverts white. Length about 10.00, 
wing 7.00, culmen .95-1.00, tarsus 1.20-1.25, middle toe .90-.95. Hab. Pacitic 
coast of America, from Alaska to Chili; Sandwich Islands? 
282. A. virgata (GmzL.). Surf Bird. 
Genus ARENARIA Brisson. (Page 179, pl. LV., fig. 3.) 
(West on or near sea-beach, consisting of little more than a mere depression in 
sand, gravel, or shingle. Eggs 2-4, more or less pyriform-ovate, light olive, speckled 
with brownish.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Lower parts (except chest), upper part of rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and greater wing-coverts, white; rest of plumage chiefly dusky, the 
upper parts sometimes varied with white and rufous. 
a, Throat white. Adult: Upper parts varied, more or less, with rufous; head 
mostly white; chest uniform deep black. Young: Upper parts without 
rufous, but the feathers with ochraceous or buffy margins; head mostly 
dusky; chest mottled dusky. Downy young (about three days old, fide 
Collett): “ Blackish gray, slightly washed with yellowish, and here and there 
tipped with black ; along the crown is a narrow black band reaching to the 
forehead, though not quite to the base of the bill; a similar stripe extends 
from the base of the upper mandible to the eye; and there is a black spot at 
the gape; sides of the throat gray; belly white; wing and scapulars colored 
like the back.” (Dressrr.) Length 9.00-9.90, wing 6.00, culmen .80-.90, 
tarsus 1.00. Hygs 1.58 x 1.13, light grayish olive, thickly sprinkled and 
speckled with vandyke-brown. Hab. Entirely cosmopolitan, but chiefly 
ALONE SCA-COASTB.......ceeccesensceeeeesees 283. A. interpres (Linn.). Turnstone. 
a. Throat dusky. Summer adult: Upper parts uniform bronzy brownish black; 
head, neck, and chest similar, with white streaks on forehead and chest, and 
a large white spot on lores. Winter plumage: Similar to summer adult, but 
head, neck, and chest uniform brownish dusky. Young: Similar to winter 
