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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. XIV. TURNSTONE. 



PL 180. 



Tringa interpres. Lin. SyJ}. I. p. 248. 



morinella. lb. I. p. 249. 



Le Coulon-chaud. BriJ. Orn. V. p. 132. 



The ufual length of this bird is nearly nine inches, breadth fixteen, and weight three 

 ounces and a half. The bill is black, and flightly turned upwards at the end : the fore- 

 head, chin, and head, above the eyes, white ; the laft, fpotted with black : acrofs the 

 forehead, the fore-part of the neck, and breaft, black : the hind part of the neck, white, 

 except that a collar of black goes round it from the fore part : the upper part of the back, 

 and wings, black, and rufiy orange colour, mixed: the lower part of the back, and upper 

 tail coverts, white, with a few crofs ftreaks of black : the tail black, tipped with rully 

 white : the under parts, from the breaft, white : the legs, rufty orange. 



The female is lefs brilliant than the male, inclining much to brown, but in general 

 markings they are not very diffimilar. The young birds, of the firft year, nearly approach 

 the females in colour. Such birds as are wholly white on the lower part of the back, 

 rump, and tail coverts, are probably very old. 



Mr. Pennant mentions a bird by the name of the black fandpiper, a fingle fpecimen of 

 which was fhot in Lincolnlhire by Mr. Bolton. This I take to be only a young male 

 turnftone. Mr. Bolton's defcription of it is as follows. It is the fize of a thrufh : the 

 beak, * fhort, blunt at the point, and dufky : noftrils, black : irides, yellow : the head, 

 fmall, and flatted at top ; in colour, white ; moft elegantly fpotted with grey : the neck, 

 fhoulders, and back, mottled in the fame manner, but darker, being tinged with brown ; 

 in fome lights thefe parts appeared of a perfect black, and gloffy : the wings were long ; 

 the quill feathers, black, croffed near the bafe with a white line : the throat, breaft, and 

 belly, white, with faint brown and black fpots, of a longifh form, irregularly difperfed, 

 but on the belly larger and more round : the tail, fhort, entirely white, except the two 

 middle feathers, which are black : the legs, long, flender, of a reddifh brown colour. 



This fpecies breeds on various fhores, in many parts of England, and makes a flight 

 nelt on the ground, laying four eggs, for which fee PI. XXXIX. Fig. 2. It derives its 

 name from its practice of turning over ftones, to fearch for worms and infects that hide 

 ihsmfelves underneath them. 



