TURN-StONE. 
Perhaps, in stndlness, this bird should be 
denominated the Hudson's Bay Turn-Stone. 
Edwards, indeed, calls it the Turn- Stone from 
Hudson's Bay ; and tells us, that it was 
brought from thence by Mr. Isham. It is the 
Tringa Interpres, of Linnsus ; the Arenaria, 
of Brisson; the Morineilus Marinus, of Wil- 
kighby and Ray; the Hebridal Sandpiper, of 
Lightfoot : the Hebridal Turn- Stone, of Pen- 
nant ; the Turn-Stone, or Sea Dotterel, of La- 
tham ; and the Turn-Stone, of Edwards, Gates - 
by, and BufFon. 
" We adopt," says the latter, the name 
given by Catesby ; because it indicates the sin- 
gular habit which this bird has of turning 
over the stones at the water's edge, to discover 
the worms and insecls that lurk beneath j 
whereas all the other shore-birds content them- 
selves witli searching in the sand or mud. 
' Being at sea,' says Catesby, * forty leagues 
from Florida, in the latitude of thirty-one de~ 
grees,abird flew on our ship, and w^as caught. 
It was very alert in turning the stones that lay 
beside 
