340 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
Turnstrone, Strepsilas interpres. I scarcely know 
why this bird has been included in the Plover family, 
as it decidedly differs from them in two material 
respects: the beak is not at all like that of the true 
Plovers, but sharp-pointed and wedge-shaped, and it 
has a very well-developed hind toe, but this is placed 
rather on the inside of the leg than straight behind, 
as 1s the case with most birds. It is a tolerably 
numerous species along our shores in winter, but 1 
do not know that any remain to breed here, though 
they appear to be found occasionally at all times of 
the year. Mr. Haddon, of Taunton, has one full- 
plumaged bird in his collection, which was brought 
alive to him on the Ist of June; it had just been 
caught at Stolford, near Burnham; and there is a 
note of a bird, probably a Turnstone, having been 
shot at Weston-super-Mare, in July, 1862,* but the 
description of the bird there given 1s scarcely suffi- 
cient to enable one to identify it with any certainty. 
These are the only instances I know of its having 
been taken in this county in the summer; but I 
have seen them in Guernsey, and killed one in 
beautiful plumage, in July. Yarrell says they retire 
to the North to breed in May, and return to this 
country with their young brood in August. 
The favourite place of resort of the ‘Turnstone 
appears to be the rough stony parts of the sea-shore, 
*« See ‘ Zoologist’ for 1864, p. 9362. 
