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TURNSTONES. 



THE Turnstone is another insulated form, which 

 will hold its place in the present family ; in its 

 manners it most nearly resembles the Tringoe, while 

 in its periodical changes it agrees with neither them 

 nor the plovers, farther than in the breeding colours 

 being black and red. The structure of the feet leads 

 us to the plovers or Charadriadce. The British 

 bird, having a wide geographical range, is the only 

 species known. 



STREPSILAS ILLIGER. Generic characters. Bill, 

 in the form of an elongated cone, strong at 

 the base, and on the culmen rather flattened, 

 the maxilla from the angle ascending ; nostrils 

 nearly basal, linear, pervious. Wings long, and 

 nearly as in Tringa. Legs feathered nearly 

 to the tarsal joint, strong ; toes bordered with 

 a narrow membrane ; hinder toe articulated on 

 the tarsus, and only touching the ground with 

 the point. 



Type, S. interpret (only species known.) Cos- 

 mopolite. 



Note. Breeds on rocks under cover of brush or 

 herbage ; colours of the summer seasonal change 

 red and black, lower parts continuing pure 

 white. 



