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TURNSTONE. 
has aroused suspicion ; the young on first reaching our shores in autumn are utterly regardless of danger 
Turnstones occasionally suffer severely from the buffetings of long-continued gales: several with puffed- 
out plumage were noticed moping round the pools of rain-water on the drive at Yarmouth durino- the 
storms in November 1872; the poor birds, which were in company with a few Purple Sandpipers, appeared 
to retain scarcely sufficient strength to avoid the traffic along the road. 
Though Turnstones must be constantly passing over the North Sea during spring and autumn I 
received information of but a single bird (a female taken on board the ‘ Inner Dowsing ’ early in July 
1873) striking the light-ships during the seasons I was in correspondence with the vessels off the east 
coast. 
The adnlts probably moult during August and the following month; an old male shot on the 28th 
of August 1879 at Shoreham still retained a sufficient quantity of bright feathers on the head and back 
to indicate his age and sex, while the remainder of his plumage was mottled and much resembled that of 
the immature birds, with which probably the dress of the adults corresponds in winter. The legs and 
feet wex’e also a dirty yellow, having completely lost the bright orange, though the strength of the limbs 
and black claws also pointed to the age of the specimen. 
