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well, in the year 1571.) Teewit is in use in Central Ryedale, 

 Doncaster, and Skelmanthorpe ; Tewfit is common in the 

 East Riding, in Swaledale, and Arkengarthdale ; and Teafit 

 is a term freely used in the North Riding and Cleveland, 

 and equally so in the East Riding ; Wype, an obsolete name 

 for this bird, was referred to in the Northumberland Household 

 Book (1512) ; and Bastard Plover was applied to it in the 

 ordinance as to the price of provisions at Hull, in 1560. 



TURNSTONE. 



Strepsilas interpres (L.). 



Winter visitant on the coast, arriving in August and September, 

 retiring further south as winter approaches. A return passage occurs 

 in spring ; a few remain during summer. 



The earliest reference to this, as a Yorkshire species, appears 

 to be that of Thomas Allis, in his oft-mentioned Report on 

 Yorkshire Birds, written in 1844, thus : — 



Strepsilas collaris. — Turnstone — Met with on the coast, frequenting 

 rocky shore ; not infrequently seen at Filey. " A. Strickland." 



This handsome bird is an autumn or winter visitant on 

 the coast, not uncommon on passage, and particularly 

 abundant in the Tees and Humber districts. Towards the 

 end of July the immature birds commence to arrive from the 

 nesting grounds, the 26th being the earliest date of which 

 I have any record, but the great majority do not appear 

 until August and early September ; I have at these times 

 frequently recognized their calls when the birds were passing 

 overhead on still, dark nights. As stated, most of these are 

 immature, yet a few adults in faded summer plumage are 

 occasionally found with them. Very few Turnstones remain 

 on the Yorkshire coast after the middle of autumn ; I once 

 procured an old bird on the 8th of October, and saw an im- 

 mature example as late as the 21st of that month, while 

 at Spurn it was numerous on 24th November 1888, an unusually 

 late date. 



