TURNSTONE. 
CHICKEN PLOVER. BRANT BIRD. RED-LEGGED PLOVER. 
Arenaria interpres. 
Char. Head, neck, breast, and shoulders variegated black and white; 
back streaked chestnut and black; wings with band of white; rump 
white; tail-coverts and most of tail-feathers dark brown ; beneath, white. 
and feet orange red; hind toe turning inward. Bill black, stout, 
and acute. Length 9 inches. 
Under shelter of bushes or among herbage near the sea-shore ; 
s ight depression, lined with a few leaves and blades of crass or weed- 
stems. ^ 
2 4 (usually 4) ; greenish gray, spotted and streaked with 
brown and bluish ash; 160 X i.io. 
These singular marine birds are not only common to the 
whole northern hemisphere, but extend their colonics even to 
h Cape of Good Hope, in the southern half of 
e globe. Their favorite breeding-resorts are, however, con- 
ned to the inclement regions of the North, to which they are 
no haste to return, but linger along the coast in the tem- 
perate climates for several months before they attain to the 
remote and desolate shores of their nativity. Their southern 
