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TURNSTONE, or SEA DOTTEREL, 



(Strepsihis interpres, Il^lig. S. collaris, Temm. Tringa interpres, 

 Wilson, vii. p. 32. pi. 57. %. 1. [adult.] Phil. Museum, No. 4044.) 



Sp. Charact. — Throat, rump, and base of the tail, white j bill 

 black; the feet orange red. — ^dult, varied with black, ferrugin- 

 ous and white ; breast black ; belly white. — The young are dusky, 

 varied with pale ferruginous and some white ; breast dusky, and 

 mottled. 



This singular marine bird is not only common to the 

 whole northern hemisphere, but extends its colonies even to 

 Senegal and the Cape of Good Hope, in the southern half 

 of the globe. Their favorite breeding resorts are, however, 

 confined to the inclement regions of the north, to which 

 they are in no haste to return, but linger along the coast in 

 the temperate climates for several months, before they attain 

 to the remote and desolate shores of their nativity. Their 

 southern progress in America, is in all probability continued 

 as far as the tropics, since their race even extends itself into 

 the other hemisphere. Buffon, in fact, figures a specimen 

 of the young bird from Cayenne. In New Jersey, accord- 



