TURN-STONE. 
joined by lines to the angles of the mouth. 
Other black lines proceed from these spots 
down the sides of the throat, and join there to 
a black collar, which encompasses the neck 
behind, and covers the breast pretty deep be- 
fore, and passes on the sides under the shoul- 
ders or joints of the wings. There are, also, 
some longish black spots, on the crown and 
hinder-part of the head, tending downwards. 
The lower part of the neck, beneath the black 
collar, is white. The back is covered with 
orange-coloured feathers ; which are black or 
dusky in their middles, so as to make an agree-, 
able mixture of black and orange. The lower 
part of the back is white ; below which is a 
half-moon-like plat of black feathers: beyond 
these, the covert-feathers on the upper side of 
the tail are white. 'The tail is black, but all 
the feathers of it are tipped with white. The. 
first, or outermost, of the prime quills, are 
black, with white shafts ; the next following 
are black, with white tips ; the succeeding arc 
almost white. I'hpse that fall over the back, 
or rump, are orange and black, like the back, 
transversely marked with the black. The first 
row of covert-feathers change their colours, 
according 
