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this way turning over stones and pebbles, from side to side, 

 in search of various marine worms and insects. The young 

 feed also upon shrimps and different kinds of small shell- 

 fish, particularly minute muscles which are occasionally cast 

 up by the tides. According to Catesby, this habit, of turn- 

 ing over stones in quest of insects, is retained by the species 

 even when subjected to domestication. 



The length of the Turnstone is about 10^ inches. Mult^ with a large 

 spot on the lores, the upper sincipital band, which is prolonged over 

 the eye, borders the ears, and meets with a second on the nape, the 

 upper half and sides of the neck, the rump, longest tail coverts, tips 

 of the greater wing coverts, bases of the quills, base and tip of the 

 tail, the chin, belly, under tail coverts, and insides of the wings, 

 white. Feathers of the crown black, with white borders. The base 

 of the neck above the back, scapulars, tertiaries, and middle rows of 

 lesser covers, chestnut brown, blotched with black. Upper border of 

 the wing, greater coverts, and quills dark clove brown. Shorter tail 

 coverts, outer half of the tail, lower sincipital band, that passes under 

 the eye and spreads over the cheeks, a stripe from the rictus along 

 the side of the throat, the fore partof the neck, breast, and shoulders, 

 velvet black. Bill, black; legs, orange. — The young of the year 

 have no trace either of black or chestnut. Head and nucha of a 

 cinereous brown, barred with deeper brown ; white spots upon the 

 sides of the head and neck ; throat and fore part of the neck whitish ; 

 the feathers on the sides of the breast, of a deep brown, with whitish 

 tips ; the other lower parts as well as the back, white ; upper part 

 of the back, scapulars and wing covertsof a deep brown, the feathers 

 widely surrounded with yellowish borders ; the transversal band of 

 the rump dark brown, bordered with ferruginous. Feet yellowish 

 red. The black and white appears more regularly disposed, as the 

 bird advances in age. This state of plumage constitutes the Tringa 

 morinella, Lin. Coidond-chaud de Caijenne, dLiid Coulond-chaud gris, 

 BuFFON, Ois. PI. Enlum,340 and 857, two specimens of the young of 

 the year. — The young, zvhcn a year old, have the wide patch or collar 

 on the forepart of the neck and upon the sides of the breast, indi- 

 cated by black feathers, edged with narrow whitish borders. The 

 cheeks and front mottled with black, upon a whitish ground. The 

 summit of the head and nucha, brown, spotted wath blackish shades 



