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and weighs eight ounces. The grey plover is about twelve 

 inches long, two feet in the stretch of the wings, and seven 

 ounces in weight. It is longer than the plover, but not quite 

 so heavy in proportion to the length. The bill is longer than 

 that of either of the species whose names are given to it, and 

 its feet are also different from both : the hinder toe is merely 

 rudimental, the claw upon it almost close to the tarsus, so 

 that it can be of no use in walking. The wings are pointed, 

 and not so hollow or broad as those of the lapwing, which are 

 also very round, the fourth and fifth quills being the largest, 

 while the first is the longest in the present species. There is 

 some confusion in the accounts of the different plumages, 

 which appear to vary not a little ; and though small flocks 

 are not unfrequently met with on the coasts of different parts 

 of the country, very little is known of its habits as a British 

 bird. In England it appears only in winter, when the under 

 part is nearly all white, and much of the upper part ash grey. 

 In summer, the under part is black, on the chin, fore part of 

 the neck, and down the middle of the breast ; and the feathers 

 on the upper part dusky, relieved with more or less of ash 

 grey on the margins. 



THE TURN-STONE (Strepsilas collaris). 



The turn-stone is another of our choice birds, about the 

 breeding place of which there is the same uncertainty as 

 about that of the sanderling. It is the neighbour of that 

 bird as well as of the ring-plover, but it does not frequent 

 exactly the same kind of shore, neither is it, perhaps, so nu- 

 merous on the same parts of the coast. The turn-stone is 

 more a bird of the north and west than of the south and east, 

 which would lead to the conclusion that, if it does migrate in 

 the breeding season, it migrates to the northward ; and it 

 is certainly found in the countries to the north-west : but 



