TURNSTONE. big is 
draws them through the meshes. The following is the 
method of arranging the net:—When stretched on the 
ground, the net is fastened down with small pegs on the 
side nearest to the fowler. It is held out in its narrow 
width by two poles, four feet in length, having a groove 
at the end, through which a rope passes from pullies 
fixed parallel to the poles and some few feet from them, 
and from which is also carried at right angles, the long 
line held by the fowler. The two poles work in joints, 
and, at the fitting moment, the fowler pulls the line, 
then the net is suddenly cast over and falls towards 
the pullies, throwing the birds into the water, and 
covering them as before stated. Lapwings fly with 
the wind, ruffs and reeves against it, and as they are 
some times taken when on the wing, the net is arranged 
accordingly, being held out by poles ten feet in height. 
STREPSILAS INTERPRES, Illiger. 
TURNSTONE. 
This cosmopolitan species visits us regularly, though 
not very numerously, in spring and autumn, and 
except during extremely severe weather some few may 
be met with throughout the winter, with stragglers, at 
times, in every month of the year. By the end of July 
or beginning of August small family groups make their 
appearance on Breydon and other parts of the coast, 
where they consort with sanderlings, dunlins, and ringed 
plover, and, considering the lateness of their stay with 
us in spring, their return in so short a time, with young, 
well able to accompany their parents, is a fact of special 
interest in studying the habits of these migratory tribes. 
At Blakeney, a favourable point of the coast for this 
species, where, from its habit of turning over sea-weeds 
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