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STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Linnzus). 
TURNSTONE. 
§ 3268. One.— Norway, 1833. W.C.H.& J. H.” From 
Mr. John Hancock, 1846. 
From Mr. John Hancock. He considers it a very characteristic 
specimen. 
[From the inscription on this egg, which is in pencil by Mr, Hancock, this 
is doubtless one of those which he and Mr. Hewitson obtained on their classical 
tour in Norway, as mentioned by the latter in the part of his ‘British Oology ’ 
published 1 Dec., 1853, and being, therefore, of historical interest, an extract 
from that gentleman’s original publication, first printed in the letterpress to 
plate lui. of that work, may here be given :— 
“We had visited numerous islands with little encouragement, and were 
about to land upon a flat rock, bare except where here and there grew tufts of 
grass, or stunted juniper clinging to its surface, when our attention was 
attracted by the singular cry of a Turnstone, which, in its eager watch had 
seen our approach, and perched itself upon an eminence of the rock, assuring 
us, by its querulous, oft-repeated note, and anxious motions that its nest was 
there ; we remained in the boat a short time until we had watched it behind a 
tuft of grass, near which, after a minute search, we succeeded in finding the 
nest, in a situation in which I should never have expected to meet with a bird 
of this class breeding ; it was placed against a ledge of the rock, and consisted 
of nothing more than the dropping leaves of the juniper bush, under a creeping 
branch of which the eggs, four in number, were snugly concealed, and 
admirably sheltered from the many storms by which these bleak and exposed 
rocks are visited, allowing just sufficient room for the bird to cover them. 
We afterwards found several more nests with little difficulty, although 
requiring a very close search.” 
The gist of the above was repeated by Mr. Hewitson in his ‘ Notes on the 
Ornithology of Norway’ (Mag. Zool. & Bot. il. p. 319). | 
§ 3269. Siv.—< Norway.” From Mr. Green, 1892. 
All from the same lot of which Mr. Green had nearly twenty. 
He assured me they were from Norway. On the 27th January, | 
took them down to Mr. Hewitson at Oatlands, Mr. Hancock being 
with him. The former exclaimed “Snipes’!’”? We measured them 
and found them considerably larger than the figure in his second 
edition [‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ pl. xxi.]. The darkest of the three 
Mr. Hancock thought was very like some of his; but he considered 
the specimens with wavy lines upon them, which he has, more 
