480 TURNSTUNE. *% 
ii bright ferruginous ; belly and vent, light rust color, with a tmge 
of lake. 
The female differs in wanting the bars of black on the breast. The 
bill does not acquire its full length before the third year. 
About fifty different species of the Scolopax genus are enumerated 
by naturalists. ‘These are again by some separated into thrée classes 
or sub-genera; viz., the straight-billed, or Snipes ; those with bills bent 
downwards, or the Curlews ; and those whose bills are slightly turned 
upwards, or Godwits: The whole are a shy, timid, and solitary tribe, 
frequenting those vast marshes, swamps, and morasses, that frequently: 
prevail in the vicinity of the ocean, and on the borders of large rivers. 
They are also generally migratory, on account of the periodical 
freezing of those places in the northern regions where they procure 
their food. The Godwits are particularly fond of salt marshes, and 
are rarely found in countries remote from the sea. 
TURNSTONE. — TRINGA INTERPRES. —Fie. 223. 
Hebridal Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. p. 472. No. 382.—Le Tourme-pierre, Buff. vii. 
130. Pl. enl. 130. — Bewick, ii. p. 119, 121.— Catesby, i. 72. — Peale’s Museum, 
No. 4044, 
STREPSILAS INTERPRES. — IuuGer.* 
Tourne-pierre a collier, (Strepsilas collaris,) Temm. Man. d’Orn. it p. 553.— 
Strepsilas interpres, Flem. Br. Zecl. p. 110. — North. Zool. ii. p. 371.— Strep- 
silas collaris, Bonap. Synop: 
Tuts beautifully-variegated species is common to both Europe and 
America; consequently extends its migrations far to the north. It 
arrives from the south on the shores of New Jersey in April; leaves 
them early in June; is seen on its return to the south in Octo- 
ber; “and continues to be occasionally seen until the commencement 
of cold weather, when it disappears for the season. It is rather a 
scarce species in this part of the world, and of a solitary disposition, 
seldom mingling among the large flocks of other Sandpipers, but 
either coursing the sands alone, or in company with two or three of its 
own species. On the coast of Cape May and Egg Harbor, this bird 
is well known by the name of the Horse-Foot Snipe, from its living, 
during the months of May and June, almost wholly on the eggs, or 
* This is the only species of Turnstone known, and it is apparently distributed 
over the whole world. Its breeding places, according to the Nerthern Zoology, are 
the shores of Hudson’s Bay and the Arctic Sea, probably in the most northern 
distnets. On the Scotch and English coasts they arrive in small flocks about the 
beginning of August, and, as the season advances, congregate “into larger assem- 
blies ; the greater proportion of these are still in their young dress, and it is not 
until the ensuing spring that this is completely changed ; in this state they have been 
frequently described as a second species. Early in spring, a few straggling birds, 
in perfect breeding plumage, may be observed on most of our shores, which have 
either been Jeft at the general migration, or remam during the year in a state of 
barrenness. It is then that the finest specimens for stuffing are obtained. — Ep. 
