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STEEPSILAS. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES. 



COMMON TURNSTONE. 



Diaonosis. Stkepsilas mento et medio guise albo immaculato. 



S}'nonymy. 



Variations. ALTHOUGH the Turnstone is perliaps the most cosmopolitan of all birds, and varies very 

 much with age, sex, and season, it is not knovpn to be subject to any local variation. 



Tringa interpres, Linneus, Sysi. Nat. i. p. 148 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 248 (17G6). 



Areiiaria arcnaria, ") 



... \Brisson, Orn. v. pp. 132, 137 (1760). 



Arenaria cincrea, > re > \ i 



Tringa morinella, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766). 



Tringa hudsonica, Miiller, Natiirsyst. Suppl. p. 114 (1776). 



Morinella collaris, Miyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 383 (1810). 



Strepsilas interpres [Linn.), Illiger, Prodr. p. 263 (1811). 



Strepsilas collaris {Meyer), Temfuinck, Man. d'Orn. p. 3J9 (1815). 



Arenaria interpres {Linn.), Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 845 (1819). 



Tringa oalraensis, Bloxham, Byron's Voyage of the 'Blonde,' App. p. 251 (1826). 



Charadrius cinclus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 148 (1826). 



Cinclus raorinellus {Linn.), Gray, List Gen. and Subgen. B. p. 85 (1841). 



Cinclus interpres [Linn.), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 549 (1846). 



Charadrius interpres {Linn.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 12 (1885). 



