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Tlie t}^e of this sub -family, — 



The Turnstone Sandpiper (Cinclus vnterpres), is a 

 regnlai' annual visitor to the shores of Great Britain, and 

 indeed of almost every maritijne country, having been 

 observed as far north as Greenland, and as far south as 

 the Straits of Magellan, but it is never seen inland. It 

 is a bird of elegant form and beautiful parti-coloured 

 plumage, active in its liabits, a nimble runner, and an 

 indefatigable hunter after food. In size it is almost as 

 big as a thrush. It is difficult to get near enough to 

 these birds to observe their manoeuvres while engaged in 

 the occupations from which they have derived their 

 name, though their industry is often ap2;)arent from the 

 number of pebbles and shells found dislodged from their 

 sockets in the sands in places where a flock has been 

 feedinof. 



