TURN-STOKE. 
beside it : in doing so, it used only it's upper 
mandible, and wa.s able to turn over very nim- 
bly stones of three pounds weight.' This 
a6lion," remarks BufFon, implies singular 
force and dexterity in a bird which is hardly so 
large as the Dusky Sandpiper. It has a bill 
of a harder and more horny substance than 
the other small shore-birds, and it forms a 
small family amid that numerous tribe. The 
bill is thick at the root, and gradually tapers, 
to a point : the upper part is somewTiat com- 
pressed, and appears to rise with a sligM curve. 
It is black, and an inch long. The feet, 
which have no membranes, are pretty short,^ 
and of an orange-colour. The plumage of 
the Turn- Stone resembles that of thcRinged 
Plover, in the white and black which intersect 
it, but without tracing distin6lly a collar, 
and in the mixture of rufous on the back. 
This similarity in it's colours has probably 
misled Brown, Willughby, and Ray, who have 
given it the appellation Morinellus, or Dotte- 
rel, though it is of a kind entirely distinct from 
the Plovers, being furnished with a fourth toe, 
and a differently shaped bill. The species of 
the Turn- Stone is common to both Continents, 
It 
