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toria Harbour and Fury Point, about the middle and towards 

 the end of June. I have seen specimens of old and young 

 birds from Iceland ; and Dr. Richardson says, " This species 

 reaches its breeding-quarters on the shores of Hudson's Bay, 

 and of the Arctic Sea, up to the seventy-fifth parallel, in 

 June, and quits them again in the beginning of September. 

 It halts in October on the shores of the Delaware, but pro- 

 ceeds farther south when the cold weather sets in." 



The Turnstone is well known to the ornithologists of the 

 United States ; and interesting accounts of its habits will be 

 found in the works of Wilson and Mr. Audubon : the latter 

 says, " My worthy friend. Dr. Bachman, once had a bird of this 

 species alive. It had recovered from a slight wound in the 

 Aving, when he presented it to a lady, who fed it on boiled 

 rice, and bread soaked in milk, of both of which it was very 

 fond. It continued in a state of captivity upwards of a year, 

 but was at last killed by accident. It had become perfectly 

 gentle, w^ould eat from the hand of its kind mistress, fre- 

 quently bathed in a basin placed near it for the purpose, and 

 never attempted to escape, although left quite at liberty to do 

 so." So far south does the geographical range of this species 

 extend in the New World, that Mr. Charles Darwin obtained 

 specimens during the survey with the Beagle in the Straits of 

 Magellan. On the continent of Europe this bird is found 

 from Russia southward to Italy. It has been noticed as 

 occurring at Madeira, in the vicinity of Senegal ; and Dr. 

 Andrew Smith, as well as others, have obtained specimens 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. M. Temminck includes the 

 Turnstone among the Birds of Japan, and mentions having 

 received specimens also from Sunda, the Molucca Isles, and 

 from New Guinea. The Linnean Society possess specimens 

 from New Holland. 



The adult bird in summer has the beak black ; the irides 

 dark brown ; the forehead black, reaching to the eye on each 



