34 TURNSTONE. 
eighths in their greatest breadth, their ground colour pale yellowish-. 
green, marked with irregular patches and streaks of brownish-red, and 
a few lines of black. 
My drawing of the Turnstones represented in the plate was made 
at Philadelphia, in the end of May 1824; and the beautiful specimen 
exhibited in the act of flying, I procured near Camden, while in the 
agreeable company of my talented friend Lr Surur, who, alas! is now 
no more. 
I have not observed any remarkable difference m the plumage of 
the sexes at any season of the year. The males I have generally 
found to be somewhat larger than the females, which, as is well known, 
is not the case in the Tringa family. 
My worthy friend, Dr Bacuman, once had a bird of this species 
alive. It had recovered from a slight wound in the wing, when he 
presented it to a lady, a friend of his and mine, who fed it on boiled 
rice, and bread soaked in milk, of both of which it was very fond. It 
continued in.a state of captivity upwards of a year, but was at last 
killed by accident. It had become perfectly gentle, would eat from 
the hand of its kind mistress, frequently bathed in a basin placed near 
it for the purpose, and never attempted to escape, although left quite 
at liberty to do so. : 
Trinca intERPRES, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol i. p. 248.—Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 738- 
TRINGA MORINELLA, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 249. 
TuRNSTONE, TRINGA INTERPRES, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. vii. p. 32. pl. 57. fig. 1- 
Srrepsrias cotiaris, Temm. Man. d’Ornith, part ii. p. 553. 
Srrepsitas InreRPRES, Ch. Bonap. Synopsis of Birds of the United States, 299. 
TurnsTone or Sea-DoTTEREL, Wuttall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 30. 
Adult Male in Summer. Plate CCCIV. Fig. 1. 
Bill a little shorter than the head, rather stout, compressed, taper- 
ing, straightish, being recurvate in a slight degree. Upper mandible 
with the dorsal line very slightly concave, the nasal groove extending 
to the middle, the sides beyond it sloping, the tip depressed and blunt- 
ed. Nostrils sub-basal linear-oblong, pervious. Lower mandible with 
the angle short, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the sides 
convex, the edges sharp, the tip depressed and blunted. 
Head small, ovate ; eyes of moderate size. Neck of ordinary length. 
