A460 BIRDS—HA@MATOPODIDA. 
inner and middle toes, and only a slight one between middle and outer. Length, about 
7 inches; wing, 44; tail 2. 
Habitat, United States and British Provinces, east of the Rocky Mountains. Abun- 
dant along the Atlantic coast of the United States, breeding north to the St. Lawrence, 
and wintering from the Carolinas southward. Cuba. Bahamas. Jamaica. 
Rather common spring and fall migrant, and in part summer resident 
on Lake Hrie, not common migrant in the interior of the State. 
This little bird was probably first recorded as occurring inland by Dr. 
Kirtland, above cited. Mr. Winslow informs me that he has found them 
on the lake shore, where their actions indicated the immediate pre- 
sence of the nest or very young birds, but he was unable to discover 
either. They have been found breeding on Lake Michigan, within the 
State of Illinois, by Mr. Nelson and others. 
Mr. Ridgway describes as a geographical race of this species, var. 
curcumcinctus, from the Missouri region. To this variety Mr. Nelson refers 
the birds taken by him in Illinois, and doubtless Ohio birds are the same. 
But specimens of circwmcinctus have been taken in various localities on 
the Atlantic coast, and doubtless, as held by Mr. Brewster, the variety is 
untenable. 
The eggs of the Piping Plover, are clay-colored, sparsely but uniformly 
dotted and speckled with blackish-brown. They measure 1.25 by 1. 
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Legs moderate, stout. Tarsus shorter than tail. Bill hard, more or less contracted 
at base, with short nasal fosse, gonydeal angle, and ascending gonys, the tip either 
compressed and truncate, or depressed and acute. Feet three-toed and with basal web- 
bing (Hematopus), or four-teed and cleft (Strepsilas). 
Genus STREPSILAS. Linnzeus. 
Bill sharp pointed not longer than the tarsus, which is scutellate in front; four-toed 
with no obvious webbing; hind toe lengthened. 
STREPSILAS INTERPRES (L.) Ill. 
‘Turnstone. 
Strepsilas interpres, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 165, 184 WHEATON, Ohio Agric. 
Rop. for 1860, 3638, 377; Reprint, 1861, 10, 19; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep 
for 1874, 572; Reprint, 1875, 12.—Couxgs, Birds of N. W., 1874, 459.—LANGDON, Re- 
vised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1870, 184; Reprint, 16. 
Tringa interpres, LINN2US, Fa. Suec., 63. 
Strepsilas interpres, ILLiGER, Prod., 1811, 263. 
Adult in summer pied above with black, white, brown and chestnut red, the laiter 
color wanting in winter and in young birds; below from the breast (which is more or 
less completely black) throat, most of the secondaries, bases of the primaries, and bases 
