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AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOK. 
ORDER X. — OHARADRITFORMES. 
F. 34. Chionididae, Sheathbills, Kelp-Pigeons, 3 sp.— 2(2)R. 
1(1)N1. 
P. 35. Thinocorythidae, Seed-Snipe, Seed-Plover, 5 sp. Nl. 
F. 36. CHARADRIIDAE (44), Waders, Plover-like Birds, 
202 sp.— 68(29)A., 75(5)0., 84(2)P., 70(24)E.. 
65(3)Nc., 74(28)N1. 
1 76 Turnstone, Sea-Dottrel, Calico (Bench) Bird, Arenaria 
2 interpres, cos. Mig. c. shore 8 
Winter plumage, mottled brown, black; summer plumage 
in far north; black and white conspicuous; short bill 
black: legs, feet, orange; f., duller. Sand-hoppers, 
shellfish. 
Petrels, but show a heavy, labored flight, varied by a short soar. 
As the two centre tail feathers project beyond the rest, the birds 
can be readily identified as they follow a steamer for tit-bits. 
The fifty Australian birds included in the important order of 
Waders are remarkably like such birds found inhabiting other 
regions of the globe, shore conditions apparently being somewhat 
similar the world over. It is interesting to note that thirteen 
of the forty-four Australian members of this family of Plover- 
like birds are also found in Britain, and that most of the others 
are direct representatives of closely-related birds found in other 
countries. No less than twenty-eight of these birds are merely 
visitors here, for they breed away in the far North. Many even 
