750 VANELLUS STREPSILAS 



number, are brownish olive with a few purplish brown shell- 

 blotches, and with many blackish brown surface spots and 

 blotches, and measure about 1*73 by T35. 



STREPSILAS, Illiger, 1811. 



1043. TURNSTONE. 

 STREPSILAS INTERPRES. 



Strepsilas interpres (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 248 (1766) ; Naum. vii. 

 pi. 303, Taf. 180 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 303, pi. Ixxix. ; Dresser, vii. 

 p. 555, pi. 532 ; Gould, B. of Austral, vii. pi. 39 ; id. B. of Gt. 

 Brit, iv. pi. 60 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 92 ; Tacz. 

 F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 845 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 223 ; 

 Seebohm, B. Jap. Em p. p. 331 ; Saunders, p. 557 ; Lilford, v. p. 46, 

 pi. 17 ; Poynting, p. 69, pi. 17 ; (Bidgway), p. 180 ; S. collaris. 

 (Meyer and Wolf), Taschenb. ii. p. 383, footnote (1810) ; Gould, B. 

 of E. iv. pi. 318. 



Tournepierre, French ; Ma^arico, Portug. ; Revuelve-piedras, 

 Span. ; Voltapietre, Ital. ; Steinwaltzer, German ; Steenlooper, 

 Dutch ; Tildra, Icel. ; Stenvender, Dan. ; Stenvcelter, Norweg. : 

 HosJcarl, Swed. ; Groategollds, Lapp. ; Luotolainen, Finn. ; Kam- 

 nescharka, Russ. ; Kio-jo-shigi, Jap. 



$ ad. (Norway). Head, throat, rump, tail-coverts, and under parts 

 below the breast white ; crown and nape with black stripes ; a narrow 

 band over the forehead, a stripe from the mandible to the breast, breast, 

 and upper flanks black ; upper parts varied black, chestnut, and white ; 

 tail white with a subterminal black band ; bill blackish ; legs orange-red ; 

 iris dark brown. Culmen 1*0, wing 6'0, tail 2'5, tarsus I'O inch. Female 

 rather duller, the head and nape darker. In winter both sexes have less 

 chestnut in the plumage and the black feathers have white tips. The 

 young bird has the head and nape dull brown marked with black ; upper 

 parts blackish brown marked with buff and brown, the breast dull dark 

 brown. 



Hob. Europe, north to Greenland, Iceland, and Novaya 

 Zemlya ; Africa to the Cape, Madagascar, and the Mascarene 

 Isles ; the Canaries, Madeira, and Azores ; Asia, north to the 

 Arctic Ocean and Kamchatka, east to Japan, south through 

 China, India, and the Philippines to Australia and New 

 Zealand ; North and South America, the West Indies, and the 

 Pacific Islands; is perhaps the most cosmopolitan species of 

 bird. 



Frequents the sea shore, especially in rocky localities, and is 

 comparatively seldom met with on the mud-flats. It feeds on 

 marine worms, insects and their larvae, small crustaceans, &c. 



