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TURNSTONE. 



COMMON TUBNSTONE. HEBEIDAL SAXDPIPEE. 



Strepsilas interferes, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Tringa interpret, LINNAEUS. 



" moriiielht, LINN /BUS. 



Arenaria cinerea, BmssoN. 



Jtiorinetlus tnurinus, KAY. 



Strepsilas. StrephoTo'turn. LaasA. stone. Interpr 



An interpreter. I conjecture from the bird's habit of 

 careful investigation, and turning over, as a translator 

 does in the case of the words of a book. 



THE geographical range of this species is wide, extending 

 to all the four great divisions of the globe. On. the Euro- 

 pean continent it is plentiful in Iceland, the Ferroe Islands, 

 Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Greenland and Nova 

 Zembla; and with us in Shetland, where it breeds, staying 

 throughout the year. It has also been observed at Madeira, 

 and in Africa in Senegal, it is said, and several other parts; 

 so far south as the Cape of Good Hope. In Asia, it is in- 

 eluded among the birds of Japan, and has been procured from 

 Sunda, the Molucca Islands, New Guinea, and in India, near 

 Madras; as also from New Holland. Selby says, that the 

 species from the American continent is in every respect similar 

 to our own, and Sir William Jardine has received the young 

 from the West Indies, from the Island of Tobago. 



In North America, it occurs in various parts even of the 

 extreme north, on the shores of the Arctic Sea, and so also 

 in the opposite direction, even to the bleak and barren Straits 

 of Magellan, the passage through which can never, it seems 

 at least to me, be dissociated from the recollection of 'Lord 



