THE TURNSTONE. 
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On the exposed coast of Down, about Newcastle, I have seen 
the turnstone in autumn. One shot from a flock of fifteen at 
Springvale, on the 12th August, 1837, was kindly sent to me by 
George Matthews, Esq. in its stomach were some opercula of 
small univalve shells. A nmnber of these birds were observed at 
Dundrum on the 31st December 1831 ; and about the 4th of the 
following month of Eebruary, two were obtained there. The 
turnstone winters in Strangford lough. A flock of about two 
dozen was remarked, in the middle of Dec. 1835, ^‘^at a little 
fresh water stream that runs into the sea and at the end of 
January 1844 several appeared at the same place. The stomach 
of one killed in this lough, early in Dec. 1846, was filled with 
the young of the common whelk (Littorma littorea). In the 
first week of March 1847, a few single birds were seen there. 
On parts of the Dublin coast, as at Baldoyle, the turnstone is 
said to be common from August till March.'’^f One day in 
September 1837, three flocks, consisting of from twenty to thirty 
birds each, were observed at the North BuH, Dublin bay, and 
four individuals killed, of which one was in adult plumage. On 
May 22, 1838, four were seen together by a party of natoalists visit- 
ing Lambay island, off the Dublin coast : one of them was procured. 
The turnstone is stated to be rarely seen about the harbour of 
Waterford; but common at the Saltees and coast of Wexford.'’^ J 
Several small flocks of five or six individuals — it was believed old 
and young mixed — were observed about the 12th of August, 1838, 
near Dungarvan, county of Waterford, by Mr. E. Davis, jmi. ; 
whence one was sent to him on the first of that month. The 
species is considered as not micommon there. It occurs, but not 
commonly, at Youghal.|| In reference to Cork harbom*, I have 
been informed by Eobert Warren, jun., Esq. that he shot a young 
bird of the year there, late in Aug. 1848 ; and that turnstones 
were common in that month two or three years before ; several 
* This gentleman remarked the turnstone to be common in summer along the 
coast of Norway, from Trondjeim to the Alton Fiord. He also saw some birds in 
winter. 
t Mr. Robert J. Montgomery. t Dr. R. J. Burkitt. 
II Mr. R. Ball. 
