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TURNSTONES. 
The Turnstone is another insulated form, which 
will hold its place in the present family ; in its 
manners it most nearly resembles the Tringce , while 
in its periodical changes it agrees with neither them 
nor the plovers, farther than in the breeding colours 
being black and red. The structure of the feet leads 
us to the plovers or Charadnadce. The British 
bird, having a wide geographical range, is the only 
species known. 
Strepsilas Illiqer. — Generic characters. — Bill, 
in the form of an elongated cone, strong at 
the base, and on the culmen rather flattened, 
the maxilla from the angle ascending ; nostrils 
nearly basal, linear, pervious. Wings long, and 
nearly as in Tringa. Legs feathered nearly 
to the tarsal joint, strong ; toes bordered with 
a narrow membrane ; hinder toe articulated on 
the tarsus, and only touching the ground with 
the point. 
Type, S. interpres (only species known.) Cos- 
mopolite. 
Note . — Breeds on rocks under cover of brush or 
herbage ; colours of the summer seasonal change 
red and black, lower parts continuing pure 
white. 
