BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
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This species constructs no nest, the eggs being upon the sand in 
a slight depression made by the scratching of the bird. Two eggs 
in my cabinet agree with Audubon’s description, being of a dull 
cream-color, spotted with dark brown. This bird is well known to 
the inhabitants by the name of Sea Pie. 
Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. V. pi. 324. 
STREPS/LAS INTERPRES. (Linn) 
Turnstone. 
Winter Plumage , Male. — Above, light, streaked and dashed with 
dark brown; an imperfect band of dark brown upon the jugulem ; 
chin and upper part of 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-cov- 
erts ; 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. 
The Turnstone, while passing the winter at the south, becomes a 
very different looking object from the beautiful bird which we are 
in the habit of seeing upon our shores during the migrations. He 
