TURNSTONE. 261 



Magellan,* Cape of Good Hope,t Peninsula of In- 

 dia, " at the Tank at Jaulnah, two hundred miles 

 inland, and as far southward as Madras,"^ Japan, 

 Moluccas, New Guinea, New Holland, || and is 

 well known to the ornithologists of the United 

 States. "We have received the young states from the 

 island of Tobago. 



The adult breeding plumage in the Turnstone is 

 beautifully variegated with black, white, and chest- 

 nut. The forehead, eye-brows, around the auriculars, 

 lower part of the back and upper tail- coverts, throat, 

 belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, are pure white ; 

 the crown of the head is black, and is relieved by 

 the edges of the feathers being yellowish ; but the 

 auricular feathers, streak from the base of the 

 maxilla stretching down the neck, surrounding the 

 white of the throat, and occupying the whole breast 

 (the white of the other lower parts running up in 

 the centre to a point) and the rump, deep black ; 

 the back, scapulars, and long tertials, are varied 

 with deep black and clear brownish-orange, some 

 of the feathers being entirely of either colour, while 

 others have the basal half, or the shafts only, black, 

 and these colours do not seem to be disposed regu- 

 larly, or the same in different specimens ; the outer 

 margins of the scapulars are narrowly edged with 

 white, which mixes conspicuously in the general 



* Darwin. + Dr. Smith. 



Jerdan, Madras Journ. of Science, July, 1840, p. 211. 



Temminck. 



I) Yarrell. Specimens in Museum of Linnean Society. 



