Plate CCCCXXVIII. Female.
Bill dusky, toward the base orange, feet bluish-green; upper parts
blackish-grey; quills greyish-black; a broad band of white on the
wing, occupying the tips of the primary coverts; the terminal third of
the secondary coverts, the bases, and more or less of the margins and
tips of the quills, several of the inner secondaries having only a
streak of dusky on the inner web; shafts of quills also white, as are
some of the feathers of the rump, the upper tail-coverts, and the
basal half of the tail, of which the rest is black, the feathers
narrowly edged with white at the end; throat greyish-white; cheeks,
sides, and fore part of neck, and anterior part of breast, dull grey,
of a lighter tint than the back; the rest of the lower parts white,
with small longitudinal oblong dark grey streaks; axillaries and lower
wing-coverts white.
_Female_, 11; wing, 7-1/2.
Cape Disappointment, Columbia River.
Townsend's Surf-Bird, Aphriza Townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 249.
GENUS III. STREPSILAS, Illiger. TURNSTONE.
Bill a little shorter than the head, rather stout, compressed,
tapering, straightish, being recurvate in a slight degree; upper
mandible with the dorsal line very slightly concave, the nasal groove
extending to the middle, the sides beyond it sloping, the tip
depressed and blunted; lower mandible with the angle short, the dorsal
line ascending and slightly convex, the sides convex, the edges sharp,
the tip depressed and blunted. Nostrils subbasal, linear-oblong,
pervious. Head rather small, ovate; neck of ordinary length; body
rather full. Feet of moderate length, rather stout; tibia bare at the
lower part, and covered with reticulated scales; tarsus roundish, with
numerous broad anterior scutella; toes four, the first very small and
elevated, anterior toes free to the base, distinctly margined, the
inner a little shorter than the outer. Claws rather small, arched,
compressed, blunted. Plumage full, soft, rather dense, and glossy.
Wings long, pointed, of moderate breadth, first quill longest, inner
secondaries elongated. Tail rather short, slightly rounded, of twelve
moderately broad feathers.