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On the exposed coast of Down, about Newcastle, I have seen 

 the turnstone in autumn. One shot from a flock of fifteen at 

 Springvale, on the 12th August, 1837, was kindly sent to me by 

 George Matthews, Esq. :* in its stomach were some opercula of 

 small univalve shells. A number of these birds were observed at 

 Dundrum on the 31st December 1831 ; and about the 4th of the 

 following month of February, two were obtained there. The 

 turnstone winters in Strangford lough. A flock of about two 

 dozen was remarked, in the middle of Dec. 1835, "at a little 

 fresh water stream that runs into the sea -" and at the end of 

 January 1844 several appeared at the same place. The stomacli 

 of one killed in this lough, early in Dec. 1846, was filled with 

 the young of the common whelk {Littorina littorea). In the 

 first week of March 1847, a few single birds were seen there. 



On parts of the Dublin coast, as at Baldoyle, the turnstone is 

 said to be " common from August till March."t One day in 

 September 1837, three flocks, consisting of from twenty to thirty 

 birds each, were observed at the North Bull, Dublin bay, and 

 four individuals killed, of which one was in adult plumage. On 

 May 22, 1838, four were seen together by a party of naturalists visit- 

 ing Lambay island, off the Dublin coast : one of them was procured. 

 The turnstone is stated to be " rarely seen about the harbour of 

 Waterford; but common at the Saltees and coast of Wexford." % 

 Several smaE flocks of five or six individuals — it was believed old 

 and young mixed — were observed about the 12th of August, 1838, 

 near Dungarvan, county of Waterford, by Mr. E. Davis, jun. ; 

 whence one was sent to him on the first of that month. The 

 species is considered as not uncommon there. It occurs, but not 

 commonly, at Youghal.|| In reference to Cork harbour, I have 

 been informed by Robert Warren, jun., Esq. that he shot a young 

 bird of the year there, late in Aug. 1848; and that turnstones 

 were common in that month two or three years before ; several 



* This gentleman remarked the turnstone to be common in summer along the 

 coast of Norway, from Trondjeim to the Alten Fiord. He also saw some birds in 

 winter. 



t Mr. Robert J. Montgomery. <: Dr. R. J. Burkitt. || Mr. R. Ball. 



