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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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T. Lyons 1939 Turnstone pg 2
Sand paper
June 20 - Peal - a pair seen near Coral gables at water edge.
Male was strikingly black & white marked on wings and back and back of wings - wide bands down back and out wings. (the birds I saw on evening the morning along an evening while swimming in the lagoon)
June 4 P.M. 26 - Wake one seen on S.S.E shore, smaller than golden plover bill about twice as long slaty on back light beneath.
(must have been something else [Tattler])
July 10 - West Dock of Lagoon 5:30 PM.
Wilkes - A noddy very persistently chasing one just off shore - Underparts white a dark color and neck & a little of breast dark probably brown bill apparently short flew with rapid steady beats