TURNSTONE 



COMMON TURNSTONE. 



PLATE CLV.-FIGURE I. 



Strepsilas interpret, .... FLEMING. SELBY. 



Tringa interpres, .... LINN^US. 



Tringa morinella, .... LINNAEUS. 



Charadrius interpres, . . . SEEBOHM. 



THESE birds lay their eggs in the north of Europe 

 and Greenland, on sandy and rocky coasts, where a 

 stunted vegetation obtains. They appear to have no tie 

 to any previously tenanted situation, but choose a new 

 residence, if it suit them, year after year. The nest is 

 sometimes placed under the shelter of a stone, rock, plant, 

 or other break in the surface, and at other times on the 

 mere rock, sand, or shingle. It is but some trifling hollow, 

 natural or scraped out for the purpose, lined, perhaps, with 

 a few dry blades of grass, or leaves. 



The eggs, four in number, vary much in colour and 

 markings, some being of a green olive ground, and others 

 of a brown olive colour ; some much and others only a 

 little spotted, principally about the obtuse end, with dark 

 grey, olive brown, and black, or reddish-brown of two 

 shades. They are cleverly concealed. 



Mr. Hewitson says that all the eggs of this species that 



