_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."
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