ARENARIA.
Bill hard, conical, pointed; tarsus short. Shore birds in habiting rocky coasts and nesting among herbage or under shelter of a stone, near the sea; eggs dull greenish grey, blotched and spotted with purplish grey and dull or olivaceous brown. • Arenaria interpres interpres (L.). TURNSTONE. Fr. Tournepierre ; Ger. Steinwalzer ; Ital. Voltapietre ; Swea'. Roskarl. y summer. Above black and chestnut ; crown black streaked white ; forehead, lores, chin, lower back, rump, longer tail coverts, tips of median wing coverts and secondaries, and under parts white ; stripe behind the forehead and under the eye, sides of throat, chest, and shorter upper tail coverts black. Bill greyish black. Legs and feet orange. In winter, tipper parts
dark black brown with pale brown margins, lores and sides of head brown. Wing 146-158, 150-159. Tarsus 25-27. Bill 20-23.
Breeds.—Iceland and Greenland, Spitzbergen, Scandinavian Coasts, Lapland, Finland, Danish Islands (rare), shores of Baltic and Islands off Baltic Provinces, N. Russia, Kolguev, Dolgoi, Nova Zembla, and across N. Siberia to Alaska. Migrates ; occurs on passage and in winter on British and other European Coasts south to Mediterranean and Egypt, and widely elsewhere, even through S. Hemisphere to New Zealand. Many remain during summer in winter quarters, but not breeding.