242 CHARADRIIDA 
and wings, dark lustrous-green, reflecting shades of bronze 
and purple; primaries, nearly black ; tail, white, banded 
near the end with black and tipped with white; sides of 
neck, impure white; cheeks, throat, front of neck, and 
breast, very dark blue-black ; abdomen, white; upper and 
under tail-coverts, bright chestnut ; axillaries, white. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage, but 
with a shorter crest. 
Adult winter, male and female.-—Somewhat similar to 
the nuptial plumage, except that the throat is white, the 
head brown, with shorter crest; broad band of black across 
the fore-neck; feathers of the back and wings, margined 
with fulvous-buff. 
Immature, male and female.—Crest, quite short, sides of 
face, neck, and throat, shaded with sandy-buff; feathers of 
the back and wings, edged with greyish-buff; very little 
lustre on the scapulars. 
Beak. Blackish. 
FrEer. Dark brown. 
IripEes. Dark brown. 
AYERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH ... ate ae 1275 ate 
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|TURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres (Linuzus). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
60; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vii, pl. 532; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vy, pl. 17. 
In some districts, as along the western sea-board of 
Ireland and on the Dublin coast, I have noticed this species 
every month in the year. Even in July’ (though the nest 
' The late Mr. E. Williams shot an adult female Turnstone on July 
18th, 1900, on the North Bull, Dublin Bay, and kindly submitted it to 
me for dissection. The ovary was fully matured, and contained several 
