296 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 
Famity APHRIZID. Surr Birps anon TURNSTONES. 
Supramity ARENARIIN/E. TurnstTones. 
Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 
ARENARIA INTERPRES (Ziv). 
Turnstone. 
Adult in summer: General upper parts mottled and 
variegated with black, white, rufous, and tawny; throat 
and breast black and white; rest of under parts white; 
tail with subterminal band of black tipped with white. 
Adult in winter; Above light, streaked and dashed 
with dark brown; an imperfect band of dark brown on 
the jugulem; chin and upper part of the throat white; 
sides of breast like the back; rest of the under parts white ; 
_ a distinct white band on the wing; rump white, but with a 
broad patch of black on the upper tail coverts ; tail dark 
brown, the tips and basal half of the inner feathers and 
nearly two thirds of the outer feathers white ; legs reddish 
orange; bill black. 
Length, 8.65; Wing, 5.70; Tail, 2.60; Tarsus, 1; Bill, .95. 
This species ranges from the Arctic regions to South America and is 
common during migrations on the Atlantic coast. It breeds in high latitudes ; 
the eggs are pale clay color mottled and lined with dull brown. It isa 
common bird in Florida in winter. 
Famity HAAMATOPODID. OvyYSTER-CATCHERS. 
Genus H/AEMATOPUS Linn. 
HAEMATOPUS PALLIATUS Zemm. 
American Oyster-catcher. 
Winter plumage, male: Head and neck blackish or very dark brown; back brown; lower 
part of breast and rest of under parts white; eyelids, rump, tips of wing coverts, part of secon- 
daries, and basal portion of the tail feathers white; bill orange, darkening at the tip (in summer 
deep red); legs flesh color. 
Length, 17.40; Wing, 10.05; Tail, 4.35; Tarsus, 2.30; Bill, 3.50. 
