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and wings, dark lustrous-green, reflecting shades of bronze 

 and purple ; primaries, nearly black ; tail, white, banded 

 near the end with black and tipped with white ; sides of 

 neck, impure white ; cheeks, throat, front of neck, and 

 breast, very dark blue-black ; abdomen, white ; upper and 

 under tail-coverts, bright chestnut ; axillaries, white. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage, but 

 with a shorter crest. 



Adult winter, male and female. Somewhat similar to 

 the nuptial plumage, except that the throat is white, the 

 head brown, with snorter crest ; broad band of black across 

 the fore-neck ; feathers of the back and wings, margined 

 with fulvous-buff. 



Immature, male and female. Crest, quite short, sides of 

 face, neck, and throat, shaded with sandy-buff; feathers of 

 the back and wings, edged with greyish-buff; very little 

 lustre on the scapulars. 



BEAK. Blackish. 



FEET. Dark brown. 



IRIDES. Dark brown. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... ... .., 12*5 in. 



WING 8-75 



BEAK 0*9 



TARSO-METATARSUS 1'5 



EGG 1-6 X 1-3 in. 



iTURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres (Linujeus). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv, pi. 

 60 ; Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. vii, pi. 532 ; Lilford, 

 ' Coloured Figures,' vol. v, pi. 17. 



In some districts, as along the western sea-board of 

 Ireland and on the Dublin coast, I have noticed this species 

 every month in the year. Even in July 1 (though the nest 



1 The late Mr. E. Williams shot an adult female Turnstone on July 

 18th, 1900, on the North Bull, Dublin Bay, and kindly submitted it to 

 me for dissection. The ovary was fully matured, and contained several 



