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Order XIII 



long sustained. The mantle in the Turnstone is 

 chestnut and black, the lower parts white, while the 

 rest of the plumage is a mixture of black and white. 

 The legs and feet are reddish orange. 



The Oyster-catcher or Mussel-picker (Hcematopus 

 ostralegus) is a much larger black and white bird with 

 flesh coloured legs, crimson irides, and orange-red biU. 







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Oyster-catcher 



It frequents our rocky shores and sandy bays, and 

 breeds either among the sand and shingle or actually 

 on the low rocks, as well as in salt-grass or stretches 

 of sea-pink. No nest is made, the eggs, generally 

 three in number, are yellowish buff with black spots 

 or scrawls. The flight is low and strong, the note 

 piercing and reiterated, the food of shell-fish and other 



