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pleasure of seeing a pair of turnstones in company with a few ring 
plover. 1 could not find their nest ; but they probably either 
have or wiU have one there^ as they were so tame as to come 
within shot. At Gransha point I saw a flock of above twenty 
turnstones ; which were very wary^ and did not seem to have 
paired. They are called stone-raios by the shooters here.” On 
the 6th of June one of these birds, feeding among the rocks at 
the largest of the Sovereign islands, coast of Cork, was disturbed 
by a party landing there ; within a few yards of which, it flew.'^ 
Against the turnstone breeding in Ireland, however, is the impor- 
tant fact of its being unknown to do so in any part of Great Britain 
or the adjacent islands. Mr. Hewitson remarks, in his work on 
the eggs of British Birds : — I have never heard of an instance 
of the turnstone breeding upon the British islands ; although led 
to expect it from having at various times seen several of the birds 
upon the Northumberland coast, and also upon the Shetland 
islands, during the months of summer. These are, however, 
usually in small flocks, and most probably yet immature,” (p. 263). 
In Orkney, too, it is remarked : — A few occasionally remain 
during summer ; but we have never heard of their being known 
to breed.”!' 
THE SANDEELING. 
Calidris arenaria, Linn, (sp.) 
Tringa „ 
Is met with occasionally on most of the low coasts of the 
island ; 
But can hardly be called an inhabitant of any parts, excepting 
where, extensive sandy beaches prevail : it breeds in more northern 
latitudes.! This bird cannot be termed common. The remark 
* Mr. Robert Warren, jun. f Hist. Nat. Oread, p. 60 (1848). 
I Wilson, in his American Ornithology, well observes that “ these birds are most 
numerous on extensive sandy beaches in front of the ocean.” His brief description 
