218 MICHIGAN BIRD LIFE. 
Distribution.—Arctic America, from the Mackenzie River eastward; 
southward in migration, chiefly coastwise, to Patagonia and the Falkland 
Islands. 
Normally a bird of the sea shore this species occurs regularly, though 
usually in small numbers, along the shores of the Great Lakes, and probably 
in rare instances inland. Major 
Boies says: ‘I killed a number 
of these birds in the fall of 1894, 
on the eastern shore of Neebish 
Island, St. Mary’s River [two 
specimens. in College Museum]; 
also saw them quite plentiful on 
Crescent Key, on the west side. I 
found them quite agreeable eating 
as they were quite fat” (Bull. 
Mich. Orn. Club, I, 1897, 20). 
Mr. Newell A. Eddy states that 
he found the Turnstone common 
at the mouth of the Saginaw 3 p 
River on May 30, 1900, “where , Te erie a pee nf 
: . rom Baird, Brewer and Ridgway’s Water Birds 
it occurred in flocks as well as of North America. (Little, Brown & Co.) 
singly.” He took a male, which 
is now in his collection, and says he could easily have taken many more. 
According to Dr. Gibbs a specimen was taken by Mr. Corwin at Austin’s 
Lake, Kalamazoo county, May 20, 1878. He also states that since that 
time others have been shot in Kalamazoo county, and it does not appear 
to be a very rare migrant. We have recently obtained for the college col- 
lection two specimens in nearly perfect breeding plumage taken near For- 
estville, Sanilac county, June 3, 1904, by Mr. Albert Hirzel. 
Mr. N. A. Wood, with the biological survey party, found the Turnstone 
rather common as a migrant along the shore of Huron county, from Aug. 
20 to 27, 1908. Again in 1910, with the Mershon expedition, the species 
was found in small numbers on the Charity Islands, Saginaw Bay, from 
Aug. 6 to 24. Mr. B. H. Swales records a flock of 30 seen at Grosse Isle, 
Wayne county, May 29, 1910 (Auk XXVII, 1910, 452). 
Mcllwraith states that at Hamilton Beach, Ontario, ‘It is a regular 
visitor in spring and fall, but there are seldom more than two or three found 
together. Young and old are observed together in September and linger 
till the end of that month, when they move farther south” (Birds of Ontario, 
1894, p. 168). In Kumlien and Hollister’s Birds of Wisconsin (page 55) 
the Turnstone is said to be not uncommon as a migrant especially in spring. 
“Small numbers remain about Lake Koshkonong well into June, and a 
few, in exceptional years, remained all summer, but there was no evidence 
that they bred. We have seen these birds about Ontonagon, Michigan, 
in the latter part of July, and Green Bay late in June; still they unques- 
tionably breed only far north of us.” Butler states that “except along 
Lake Michigan it is almost unknown. There are but two records from the 
interior of the state” (Birds of Indiana, 1897, 745). In northeastern 
Illinois, according to Nelson, “it is a common migrant along Lake Michigan. 
Arrives May 15, in full breeding plumage and is found until the first week 
in June. Returns early in August, still in breeding plumage, which is ex- 
changed for that of winter during the last of the month. Departs about 
the 20th of September. While here they are generally found in company 
