310 SANDPIPER. 



76.— MARBLED TURNSTONE. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, dusky ; 

 general colour of the plumage rufous and brown mixed, inclining to 

 black oil the breast; beginning on each side of the neck, and forming 

 a kind of collar ; lower order of wing coverts dusky white, forming 

 an oblique bar on the wing ; beneath from the breast, also the rump, 

 white ; quills dusky ; tail the same, ends of the feathers buff-colour; 

 legs red; wings and tail even in length. 



Inhabits India. — Gen. Hardwicke. Called Battaan ; found at 

 Cawnpore, in October. 



