Ord&r CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 157. 
Family MORI NELLI DM, 
MORINELLA INTERPRES OAHUENSIS. 
EASTERN TURNSTONE. 
(Plate 125.)* 
Tblnga OAHUENSIS Bloxham, Voy. “ Blonde ” Sandwich Isl., p. 251, 1826 ; Sandwich 
Islands. 
Tringa oahuensis Bloxham, Voy. “ Blonde,” Sandwich Isl., p. 251, 1826. 
Charadrius cinclus PaUas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol II., p. 148, 1827 (Siberia). 
Strepsilas interpres Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 39, 1848 ; Middendorff, Sibirische 
Reise, p. 213, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 269, 1865 ; Swinhoe 
Ibis 1870, p. 361 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 221, 1873 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 338, 1878 ; Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1878, p. 127, 
1879 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 410, 1887 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 
2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 14, 1888 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p, 20, 1888 ; 
Seebohm, Ibis 1888, p. 348 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Ad. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 957, 
1892 ; La Touche, Ibis 1892, p. 497 ; Rothschild, Av. Laysan, p. 13, 1893. 
CiTiclus interpres Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pac, Ocean, p. 48, 1859. 
Morinella interpres Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. V., p. 34, 1882. 
Arenaria interpres id., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 102, 1885 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 92, 1896 ; North, Birds County Cumberl., p. 109, 1898 ; 
Palmer, Fur Seals and Isl. Pac. Ocean, pt. m., p. 410, 1899 ; HaU, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 80, 1899 ; Rothschild, Av. Laysan, p. 259, 1900 ; Hutton, Trans. New 
Zeal. Inst. 1900, p. 255, 1901 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 774, 
1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 175, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austi*., 2nd ed., 
p. 80, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 23, 1908 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 
1910, p. 184 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 120, 1910 ; Campbell and White, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 198, 1910. 
Arenaria interpres interpres, A.O.U. Checklist, 3rd ed., p. 131, 1910. 
Morinella interpres interpres Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 213, 1912. 
Distribution. Eastern Siberia to Alaska, wandering to Australia in the non-breeding 
season. 
Adult male, in hreeding-plumage. Lores, fore-part of crown, sides of crown, and sides of neck 
white hke the lower-back and upper tail-coverts, as also the throat, middle of breast, 
abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts ; forehead black with 
* The Plate is lettered Morinella interpres. 
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