2l8 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



favoured counties being Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, 

 Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, and North- 

 umberland " (W. Swaysland), "Habitat abroad — 

 summer quarters : Norway, Sweden, the tundras of 

 European and Asiatic Russia as far as Bering Sea, 

 etc. ; principal winter-quarters : Palestine, Egypt, 

 and Northern Africa" (Howard Saunders). 



The Turnstone. 



This and the Dotterel are about two of the hand- 

 somest of the Plovers that frequent the British 

 Islands. No authenticated records exist of the 

 species having bred in our Islands, although Howard 

 Saunders says that a " diligent search among the 

 islands of Scotland might possibly be rewarded"; 

 the same author states that "the Turnstone is more 

 plentiful in the western islands of Scotland and on 

 the deep indented shores of the west coast of 

 Ireland than in England." 



This species feeds amongst seaweed-covered 

 rocks, and may be seen turning over small stones 

 and shells on sandy shores in search of marine 

 insects, crustaceans, and molluscs ; hence the name 

 of Turnstone. In Norfolk, it appears, the bird has 

 the local name of Tancrle Picker. Turnstones never 

 seem to be in a orreat number together. The first lot 

 of these birds I ever came across was in the island of 

 Coll, which is one of the Inner Hebrides. There, 

 on some rocks on a sandy strand of the Atlantic, I 

 saw a few feedingf toofether. I manag^ed to secure 



