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This species is much more sensitive of cold than 

 the Golden Plover ; before severe weather they always 

 depart some days in advance, and on the return of fine 

 weather they do not appear till some days after them. 



151. STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Linnaeus). Turnstone. 



Visit the Lincolnshire coast during the spring and 

 autumn migrations, arriving in August in small parties 

 about the same time as the Kinged Plover. I have 

 found them in our marshes at this season associating 

 with Ringed Plover and Dunlin on the summer-eaten 

 clover- fields, where they feed on various species of 

 coleopterous insects, obtained in their characteristic 

 manner by jerking over the dried and clover- grown 

 fragments of sheep-dung, beneath which various small 

 beetles find shelter. The Turnstone, visiting us in the 

 autumn, proceeds further south as bad weather ap- 

 proaches, a few remaining throughout the winter on 

 the immense sandy flats of the Lincolnshire coast. 

 I have obtained it at Spurn in the autumn*. It is 

 not common, however, along the Yorkshire sea-board 

 at any season. Mr. T. Boynton, of Ulrome Grange, 

 near Bridlington, tells me that it is quite a rarity with 

 them, and, although he spends a great deal of time on 

 the sea-coast, he has never shot one. 



Are less numerous on their return northward. 

 The spring migration takes place in May ; and they 



* In the month of August 1872 young birds of this species 

 were especially numerous in this locality. 



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