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It will be seen that I formerly degcribed this bird as To- 

 tanus griseopygius believing it to be undescribed, but I now 

 find that it had been previously characterized in the work 

 above quoted as T. pulverulentus, which specific appellation I 

 therefore adopt. 



Genus STREPSILAS, Illiger. 



If any bird may be regarded as a cosmopolite, it is the Turn- 

 stone, for it is found in most of the countries of the Old and 

 New World. Two or, at most, three species of this form are 

 all that are known. 



Sp. 532. STREPSILAS INTERPRES. 



Turnstone. 



Tringa interpres, Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 248. 

 Strepsilas interpres, Leach in Cat. of Brit. Mus., p. 29. 

 collaris, Temm. Man. d'Orn., torn. ii. p. 553. 



Strepsilas interpres, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi. pi. 39. 



If any one bird be universally dispersed over the sea-shores 

 of the globe it is the Turnstone, for there are few of which it 

 is not an inhabitant. I find no differences whatever between 

 Australian and European specimens, nor do examples from 

 America present sufficient variation to warrant any other con- 

 clusion than that the whole are one and the same species. 



I could never detect the breeding-place of the Turnstone in 

 any one of the Australian colonies, and I must not fail to add, 

 that in the southern parts of that continent and Tasmania 

 examples in the adult livery are but seldom seen, while indi- 

 viduals in the immature dress are very abundant; on the 

 contrary, most of the specimens from Raine's Islet and other 

 parts of Torres' Straits are mature birds clothed in the fidl 

 livery or breeding-plumage. In all probability the northern 

 parts of Australia will hereafter prove to be the part of the 



