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outer. Claws rather small, arched, compressed, blunted. 
Plumage full, soft, rather dense, and glossy. Wings long, 
pointed, of moderate breadth, first quill longest, inner se- 
condaries elongated. Tail rather short, slightly rounded, 
of twelve moderately broad feathers. 
324. 1. Strepsilas Interpres, Linn. Turnstone. 
Plate CCCIV. Summer and winter plumage. 
Adult in summer witli the bill black, feet deep orange ; plumage 
varied with white, black, brown, and red ; upper parts of the head and 
nape streaked with black and reddish- white ; a broad band of white 
crossing the forehead, passing over the eyes, and down the sides of 
the neck, the hind part of which is reddish- white, faintly mottled with 
dusky ; a frontal band of black curving downwards before the eye, 
enclosing a white patch on the lore, and meeting another black band 
glossed with blue, which proceeds down the neck, from the base of 
the lower mandible, enlarging behind the ear, covering .the whole an- 
terior part of the neck, and passing along the shoulders over the sca- 
pulars ; the throat, hind part of the back, outer scapulars, upper tail- 
coverts, and under parts of body and wings, white ; anterior smaller, 
wing-coverts dusky, the rest bright chestnut or brownish-orange, as 
are the outer webs of the inner tertiaries ; alula, primary coverts, outer 
secondary coverts and quills blackish-brown, the inner webs becoming 
white towards the base ; a broad band of white across the wing, in- 
cluding the bases of the primary quills, excepting the outer four, and 
the ends of the secondary coverts ; shafts of primaries white ; tail 
white, with a broad blackish-brown band towards the end, broader 
in the middle, the tips white ; a dusky band crossing the rump. In 
winter, the throat, lower parts, middle of the back, upper tail-coverts, 
and band across the wing, white, as in summer ; tail and quills also 
similarly coloured, but the inner secondaries destitute of red, of which 
there are no traces on the upper parts, they being of a dark greyish- 
brown colours, tipped or margined with paler ; outer edges of outer 
scapulars, and some of the smaller wing-coverts, white ; on the sides 
and fore part of the neck, the feathers blackish. 
Male, 9, 18|. 
Not uncommon along the shores of the Southern States during 
winter, though the greater number remove much farther south. Breeds 
in high northern latitudes, Hudson’s Bay, and shores of Arctic Seas. 
Never in the interior, 
Turnstone, Tringa Interpres, WiLs. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 82. 
Strepsilas Interpres, Bonap. Syn. p. 299. 
Strepsilas Interpres, Turnstone, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v, ii. p. 371. 
Turnstone or Sea Dotterel, Ndtt. Man. v. ii. p. 30. 
Turnstone, Strepsilas Interpres, Aui). Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 31. 
