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LAPWIXG OR PEEAVIT. VaneUus vulgaris, Bechstein. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 283 ; Dresser, vii. p. 545 ; Ibis List, p. 161 ; A'anel- 

 lus cristatus, Harting, p. 43; SeeboJim, iii. p. 57; Tringa 

 Vanellus, Ptdteney's List, p. 1 5. 



A well-known and common resident, congregating 

 in flocks at the end of the nesting season, when 

 numbers leave the higher grounds where they breed, 

 and go down to the mud-flats of the harbours and 

 estuaries. 



TUENSTONE. Strepsilas interpres, L. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 2S9; Harting, p. 44; Dresser, vii. p. 555; This 

 List, p. 161; Charadrius interpres, Seebohm, iii. p. 12; 

 Tringa interpres, Pulteneijs List, p. 15. 



The Turnstone visits our coasts in spring and 

 autumn, when migrating to and from its breeding- 

 haunts in Greenland, Iceland, and the shores and 

 islands of Scandinavia. Mr. T. M. Pike informs me 

 that it has been seen here during every month in the 

 year, but that it is rare in winter. Several small 

 flocks were seen at Poole, Studland, Kimmeridge 

 Bay, and the neighbourhood of Weymouth in the 

 severe spring of 1873. On June 8, 1875, Mr. Pike 

 saw a pair on Drift Point, at the mouth of Poole har- 

 bour. One in my collection was knocked down by 

 a stone thrown by a quarryman in Kimmeridge Bay 

 in the autumn of 1881. The local name of this bird 

 is Variegated or Chicken Plover. 



