_Tringa Interpres_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 148.
(Type locality, Europe and North America, restricted to Gotland,
Sweden.)
_Tringa interpres_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Uranie," Zool., 1824,
p. 708 (Guam).
_Strepsila collaris_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, pp. 287, 299, 304 (Ualan, Lougounor, Guahan);
_idem_, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p.
32 (Ualan).
_Strepsilas interpres_ Kittlitz, Denk. Reise russ. Amer. Micron.
und Kamchat., 2, 1858, pp. 32, 55, 86 (Ualan); Pelzeln, Reise
"Novara," Vögel, 1865, p. 117 (Mariannen); Finsch and Hartlaub,
Fauna Ornith. Centralpolynesian, 1867, p. 200 (Mariannen);
Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868), p. 831 (Pelew);
Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 8, 118
(Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 104 (Pelew,
Uap, Mackenzie); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873, p. 123
(Yap); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5, 32 (Palau);
_idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 (1878), p. 781 (Ponapé);
_idem_, Ibis, 1880, pp. 220, 330, 332 (Taluit); _idem_, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1880, pp. 294, 306 (Ponapé, Kuschai); _idem_, Proc. Zool.
Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ruk); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 105, 109,
115 (Kushai, Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 281, 330, 353 (Ponapé, Nukuor, Ruk);
Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 289 (Pelew, Mariannis);
Finsch, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 56 (Jaluit, Kuschai);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891
(1891); p. 63 (Ualan, Ponapé, Luganor, Nukuor, Ruk, Mackenzie,
Pelew, Marianne); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3),
8, 1896, p. 45 (Guam, Saypan, Hogoleu, Marshalls, Mackensie,
Palaos); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 66 (Guam); _idem_,
Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 9 (Ruk); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1,
1915, p. 51 (Ponapé); Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 9, 1918, p. 489
(Ponapé).
_Cinclus interpres_ Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean,
1859, p. 48 (Ladrones).
_Arenaria interpres_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24, 1896, p.
92 (Micronesia); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 37 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 68 (Marianas);
_idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); Schnee, Zool.
Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 389 (Marshall Islands); Safford, Contr.
U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80 (Guam), Cox, Island of Guam,
1917, p. 22 (Guam); Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology,
32, 1946, pp. 316, 320 (Guam, Peleliu); Downs, Trans. Kansas Acad.
Sci., 49, 1946, p. 105 (Tinian); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam);
Borror, Auk, 1947, p. 417 (Agrihan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll.,
vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 53 (Guam, Rota, Peleliu, Truk).
_Arenaria interpres oahuensis_ Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore,
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 66, 1919, p. 177 (Jaluit, Rongelab, Uala);
Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Guam, Saipan,
Pelew, Angaur, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor, Nukuor, Ruk, Yap,
Mackenzie, Taluit, Rongelab).
_Arenaria interpres interpres_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50,
pt. 8, 1919, p. 45 (Micronesia); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 194 (Guam, Saipan, Anguar, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor,
Nukuor, Ruk, Yap, Mackenzie, Taluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro,
Wotze, Likieb); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 217 (Guam,
Saipan, Angaur, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor, Ruk, Yap, Mackenzie,
Taluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro, Wotze, Likieb); Stickney, Amer.
Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 8 (Guam, Palau, Ponapé, Kusaie).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern parts of the Northern
Hemisphere. Winters to Southern Hemisphere. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam, Rota, Saipan; Palau Islands--Angaur, Peleliu,
Caroline Islands--Yap, Ulithi, Truk, Lugunor, Nukuor, Ponapé,
Kusaie; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro, Wotze,
Likieb, Bikini.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 36 (17 males, 16 females, 3
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands. USNM--Guam, 7 (Oct.
10-26)--Rota, 2 (Oct. 20, Nov. 2); AMNH--Guam, 4 (Mar. 22, 27, Aug.
18); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 1 (Sept. 8); AMNH--exact
locality not given, 3 (Dec. 8); Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 1
(Dec. 22); AMNH--Ponapé, 4 (Dec. 16)--Truk, 4 (Feb. 5, 7, July
14)--Kusaie, 7 (Mar. 10-30); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 3
(Feb. 26, Mar. 4).
_Weights._--The NAMRU2 party obtained the weights of four males
taken at Guam and Rota as 77-99 (92) and one female from Guam as
90. These birds were obtained in October and November.
_Parasites._--Wharton and Hardcastle (1946:316, 320) list the
following chiggers (Acarina) from the Turnstone from Guam and
Peleliu: _Neoschöngastia carveri_ and _N. strongi_. Wharton
(1946:174) records also _Acariscus anous_ from the Turnstone at
Guam. Uchida (1918:489) records the bird louse (Mallophaga),
_Colpocephalum pediculoides_, from this bird at Ponapé.
_Remarks._--The Turnstone is a regular visitor to Micronesia and to most
other parts of Oceania. As pointed out by Stickney (1943:8), the
material obtained by the Whitney South Sea Expedition yields evidence
that the population which winters in Oceania is as widespread as that of
_Pluvialis dominica fulva_ but less abundant. The writer's observations
at Guam, Ulithi and the Palaus are in agreement with this evidence.
Stickney suggests that the reason the Turnstone was not recorded by the
Whitney South Sea Expedition in eastern Polynesia was because of "a
tendency of the turnstone to hug the continental coasts more closely,
avoiding extensive overseas migrations."
At Guam in 1945, the NAMRU2 party recorded the Turnstone on its
northward migration as late as March 19; on its southward migration it
was first seen at Guam on July 24. On its southward migration the bird
was not numerous until September. Our observations indicated that in
1945, the principal waves of migration of the Turnstone appeared
approximately two weeks after those of the Pacific Golden Plover and the
Whimbrel. Stickney remarks that the spring migratory season in Oceania
is completed in May and that the fall migratory season begins in August.
Borror (1947:417) found small flocks on the beaches at Agrihan on August
10 and 11, 1945.
Bryan and Greenway (1944:112) indicate that the subspecies, _Arenaria
interpres morinella_, which breeds in North America, east of Point
Barrow, Alaska, may reach the Hawaiians. Careful examination of
specimens from eastern Micronesia might reveal its presence there also.
The name _Areneria interpres oahuensis_ (Bloxham) may apply to specimens
from eastern Micronesia but Peters (1934:271) considers _oahuensis_ to
be inseparable from _Arenaria interpres interpres_ (Linnaeus).
=Gallinago megala= Swinhoe