Plate CCCIV. Summer and winter plumage.
Adult in summer with 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 anterior part
of the neck, and passing along the shoulders over the scapulars; 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, including 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, 18-3/4.
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. 32.
Strepsilas Interpres, Bonap. Syn. p. 299.
Strepsilas Interpres, Turnstone, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 371.
Turnstone or Sea Dotterel, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 30.
Turnstone, Strepsilas Interpres, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 31.