The Turnstones 
Occurrence in California. —Not clearly distinguished from that of 
A. i. interpres. One positive record: Sunset Beach, Orange County, Sept. 20, 1907 
(Ridgway). 
THE WORLD has always exercised a special tolerance toward 
brides and grooms. Especially in the matter of dress has every indul¬ 
gence been shown them, and we have beheld our fellow mortals at nuptials 
tricked out in trappings anti draperies befitting birds of paradise, or 
cockatoos. In so doing, of course, we have only been aping nature, and 
our most bizarre effects are feeble in comparison with those achieved by 
nature’s younger children. Turnstones in spring are the original Har¬ 
lequins. Imagine a patchwork of black and white and bright chestnut 
so intricate in pattern as not to deserve minute description. Complete 
the costume with a pair of brilliant orange hose, and you have our can¬ 
didate for matrimony, very conscious and quite absurd. 
Although Turnstones winter sparingly along our shores, and es¬ 
pecially on the Channel Islands, they are chiefly migratory. They pass 
rather hurriedly in spring, breed on Arctic shores, and are back again in 
Photo by the Author 
THE TURN OF THE TIDE 
THREE RUDDY TURNSTONES AT SANDYLAND 
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