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brow white or buffy white; wing feather.s black with white shafts. Aditll luni/cr: 

 With no black on under parts, which are whitish on the throat and belly and light 

 brownish streaked with grey elsewhere, more streaks on the chest; usually less yellow 

 above than in summer. Young: Similar to adults but with more golden above; crown 

 blacker. Length 9.85-10.00, wing 6.35-6.65, tail 2.65-2.90, culmen .85-1.00, tarsus 

 1. 60-1. 92 (1.70), toe 1. 20-1. 32, depth of bill .25. Hab. Breeding in Northern Asia 

 and Alaska, southward to Polj'nesia. Hawaiian Islands. The following table of niea.s- 

 iirements is taken from specimens in the Museum series : 



Length 



Wing 



Tail 



Culmen 



Tarsus 1.85 



Toe 



Depth of bill 



52. C. domin'icus fulvus'' (Gmf;i,.). Pacific Golden Plover, Kolea. 



PI. XXV., 9397, 9897. 



F.AlImily APHRI^'ID^. — Surf Birds .\nd Turnstones. 



Genus. 

 Nasal grooves not more than half the length of the upper mandible ; tail slighth- 

 rounded; terminal half of the bill pointed (Page 29. ) Arena'ria. 



Gents ARENA'RIA Bri.s.sox. 



Head white and streaked with black, or head blackish brown ; throat white, 

 followed by a broad black band. Fall adult male: General color above black mixed 

 with chestnut or partly chestnvit feathers ; entire rump pure white ; upper tail coverts 

 black, longer ones white ; quills black with white shafts ; crown of head and hind neck 

 white; lores white; sides of neck, fore neck and breast black; throat white; abdomen 

 white. Female: Duller all over and with less chestnut. Winter: Above nearly uni- 

 form dusky brown, edges of feathers ashj' brown; head uniform brown like the back; 

 hind neck and side of neck ashy mottled with dusky centres. Young: General color 

 above dusky brown; throat and under surface of bodj- white. Length about 8.00, wing 

 5.60-5.95, tail 2.40-2.50, culmen .88-.90, tarsus .95-1.05, toe 1.05, depth of beak .30. 

 Hab. Cosmopolitan. Hawaiian Islands. 

 PI. XXV., 8726, 9174. 53. A. inter'pres'-'' (Linn.). Turnstone, Akekeke. 



31 Mr. Henshaw adds Squatarola squatarola (Linn.) from Hawaii. (Aiik, XVII., p. 202. 



32 It is probable that A. intcrprcs (Linn.) and A. viclanocephala (Vig.) both visit the islands. However, I have seen no specimens of the 

 latter that have been taken in the group. 



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