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ticular cases. When the nest is made on the shingle 

 there is generally some attempt at lining it with grass, 

 although in one case the eggs were laid right on the 

 stones. July 16 to 21 : At this date there was not a 

 single Lapwing to be seen on the beach proper. There 

 were, however, large numbers of them, old and young 

 birds, on the marsh and meadow land, but they seemed to 

 have quite deserted the shingle." 



On June 4, 1906, while searching a large mass of 

 rushes in a field in Romney Marsh for various plants, 

 some young Lapwings got up, and, beautifully concealed 

 among these rushes, what appeared at first sight to be 

 some cow droppings, or the sole of an old shoe, turned 

 out to be a young Lapwing just able to fly. It was so 

 closely pressed down at the roots of the rushes that it 

 had been passed at first as nothing particular, the 

 colour and markings resembling the oljjects referred to. — 

 E. Bartlett. 



Genus STREPSILAS, Illiger. 



TUENSTONE. 



Strepsilas interpres (Linnaeus). >S'.iV., i., p. 248 



(1766). 



During the autumn, winter, and spring the Turnstone 

 visits all the large sand-beaches and mud-flats on the 

 coast and estuaries of Kent, associating with many other 

 waders. The localities in which it has been procured 

 and the data are very numerous ; scarcely a list of 

 Kentish birds is without mention of the Turnstone. 



Some of these birds make their appearance very early 

 in August and September and remain up to May and 

 June. 



