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TURNSTONE. 



COMMON TURNSTONE. HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER. 

 PLATE CLV. FIGURE I. 



Strepsilas interpret, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Tringa interpret, LlNN^US. 



Tringa morinella, LINNAEUS. 



Arenaria cinerea, BRISSON. 



Morinellus marinus, RAY. 



npHESE birds lay their eggs on sandy and rocky 

 -*- coasts, both where a stunted vegetation obtains, 

 and where sterility alone is the characteristic of the 

 scene. They appear to have no tie to any previously- 

 tenanted situation, but choose a new residence, like 

 other tribes, if so 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 



