94 FEATHERED GAME 
THE TURNSTONE. ‘‘CALICO BACK.” 
CHICKEN PLOVER. ROCK PLOVER. 
(Arenaria morinella.) 
Where the sea beaches are not too thickly 
populated with human visitors the Turnstones 
are quite common during the summer and early 
fall, from the middle of July to the middle of 
September. These ‘‘Chicken Plovers,’’ as the 
shore-dweller has named them, are most inter- 
esting little birds, scurrying along the beach, 
putting their stout little beaks under the peb- 
bles to turn them over so as to expose to view 
the myriad ‘‘wrigglers’’ dwelling beneath 
them; it is even said that they will drive their 
beaks through the armor of the less thoroughly 
protected shellfish, such as the ‘‘sea urchins,’’ 
and the like. They handle quite a pebble when 
they set to work upon it, putting the bill be- 
neath and turning it with a sudden jerk of their 
stout little necks, or when this will not do it, 
by settling back upon their legs and suddenly 
straightening them at same time with the ef- 
fort of the head and neck, or even pushing 
against it, man-fashion, with their breasts. In 
