466 TURNSTONE. Class IL 



on the top •, is very ftrong ; black at the tip, and 

 at the bale whitifn : the forehead and throat are 

 afh colored : the head, whole neck and coverts of 

 the wings are of a deep brown, edged with a pale 

 reddifh brown : the fcapular feathers are of the 

 fame color, very long, and cover the back : that 

 and the rump are white ; the lad marked with a 

 large triangular black fpot: the tail confifts of 

 twelve feathers, their lower half is white, the up- 

 per black, and the tips white : the quil-feathers 

 are dulky, but from the third or fourth the bot- 

 toms are white, which continually increafes, till 

 from about the nineteenth the feathers are entirety 

 of that color : the legs are fhort and of an orange 

 color. 



Thefe birds take their name from, their method 

 of fearching for food, by turning up fmall ftones 

 with their flrong bills to get at the infects that 

 lurk under them. The bird we toke our defcrip- 

 tion from was fhot in Shropjhire. Mr. Ray ob- 

 ferved them flying three or four in company on the 

 coalts of Corneal and Merioneth/hire : and Sir Tho- 

 mas Brown of Norwich difcovered them on the 

 coaft of Norfolk ; communicating the picture of 

 one to Mr. Ray, with the name of Morinellus ma- 

 rinus> or fea dottrel. 



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