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STEEPSILAS. 



STREPSILAS INTERPRES. 



COMMON TURNSTONE. 



Diagnosis. Strepsilas mento et medio gulie albo immaculate. 



Variations. Although the Turnstone is perhaps the most cosmopolitan of all birds, and varies very 

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



Synonymy. 



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a jBrisson, Orn. v. pp. 132, 137 (1760). 



Tringa interpres, Linneus, Sysi. A T at. i. p. 148 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 248 (1766). 



Arenaria arenaria, 



Arenaria cincrea, 



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



Tringa hudsonica, Mutter, Natursyit. Suppl. p. 114 (1776). 



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



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



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



Arenaria interpres (Linn.), Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 345 (1819). 



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



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



Cinclus iuorinellus (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). 



