204 GRALLATORES. STREPSILAS. TURNSTONE 



COMMON TURNSTONE. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES, Leach. 

 PLATE XXXIII. * FIG. 1, 2, and 3. 



Strepsilas Interpres, Leach in Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 29 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 



11. 520. pi. 39 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. sp. 159. 



Strepsilas collaris, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 553. 



Tourne-Pierre a collier, Temm. Man. 2. 553. 



Common Turnstone, Shaw's Zool. 11. 520. pi. 39 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. 



sp. 159. 

 Tringa Interpres, Linn. Syst. 1. 248. 4 GmeL Syst. 1. 671 Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. 2. 738. sp. 45. 

 Arenaria, Briss. Orn. 5. 132. 1. 



Morinellus marinus, Raii Syri. 112. A. 5 Will. 251. t. 58. 

 Le Tourne-Pierre, Buff. Ois 8. 130. 10. 

 Le Coulond Chaud, Buff. PL Enl. 856. 

 Steindrehende Strandlaufer, BechsL Naturg. Deut. 4. 335 Meyer, Tass- 



chenb. Deut. 2. 382. 



Hebridal Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. 467- No. 200 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 382. 

 Turnstone or Sea Dotterel, Edw. Glean, t. 141 Will. (Angl.) 311. Lath. 



Syn. 5. 188. sp. 37 Id. sup. 249 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 5. 179 Mont. 



Ornith. Diet. 1 Low's Faun. Oread. 87- and 850. Bewick's Br. Birds, 



2. 124. and 126. 



/Tringa Morinella, Linn. Syst. 1. 249. 6. GmeL Syst. 1. 671. 4. B. 

 I Arenaria cinema, Briss. Orn. 5. 137- No. 2. t. 11. f. 2. 



v ) Coulond Chaud de Cayenne, et Coulond Chaud gris de Cayenne, Buff. 



g * \ PI. Enl. 340. et 857. 



I Turnstone or Sea Dotterel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 199. Lath. Syn. 5. 

 V 190. 37- var. A. 







PROVINCIAL Skirlcrake. 



Periodical THIS handsome bird (the only species of this genus hi- 

 visitant. therto discovered) is amongst the number of our winter visi- 

 tants, making its first appearance on our shores sometimes 

 as early as the end of August, and continuing till the spring, 

 when it departs, about March or April, for higher northern 

 latitudes, there to breed and pass the summer months. Dr 

 FLEMING, in his " History of British Animals," states it as 

 a constant resident in Zetland, having met with it at all 

 seasons of the year. It certainly appears, at first sight, to 

 be a contradictory circumstance, that a bird, which in Eng- 



