Charadriid^.] 



TURNSTONE. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Linnj:us). 



Explanation op Plate. 



Figure 1 



SkanCj Sweden. June G, 1891. 



2. Lapland, June 1 i, 1886. 



3. Upland, Sweden, June 19, 1889. 



4. Ditto. June 15, 1892. 



5. Lapland, June 9, 1889. 



6. Ditto. June 12, 1887. 



7. Skane, Sweden, June 1, 1891. 



8. Lapland, June 9, 1887. 



9. Ditto. Ditto. 



10. Ditto. Ditto. 



11. Ditto. June 14, 1886. 



12. Skane, Sweden, June 6, 1891. 



) In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



The Turnstone is a spring and autumn visitor to the coasts of the British 

 Islands, a limited number spending the winter in the soiith and west of England. 

 Pairs of these birds have been known to spend the summer on our coasts, but 

 authenticated eggs do not appear to have been obtained in our Islands. The 

 expectations that this species would be found nesting among the Scotch islands 

 have not been realized by the explorations of Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown.* 



Mr. Howard Saunders writes f : — " The Turnstone breeds in Greenland, Iceland 

 (where it is sedentary), and perhaps in the Fseroes ; but its best known and most 

 accessible nesting-places are on the coasts and islands of Scandinavia, Denmark, 

 and of the Baltic. It has occurred on Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, and Novaya 

 Zemlya, and is found in summer along the northern coast of Siberia as far as 

 Bering Straits ; while during the cold season its range extends over Asia, and 



* See 'A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides,' 1888, by J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley, 

 pp. 126, 127 ; also ' A Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands,' 1891, pp. 205, 206, and ' A Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides,' 1892, p. 168, by the same authors. 



t 'Manual of British Birds,' pp. 541, 542. 



