TURNSTONE. 
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Magellan,* Cape of Good IIopc,+ Peninsula of In- 
dia, “ at the Tank at Jaulnah, two hundred miles 
inland, and as far southward as Madras, Japan, 
Moluccas, New' Guinea, § New Holland, || and is 
well known to the ornithologists of the United 
States. We have received the young states from the 
island of Tobago. 
The adult breeding plumage in the Turnstone is 
beautifully variegated with black, white, and chest- 
nut. The forehead, eye-brows, around the auriculars, 
lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts, throat, 
belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, are pure white ; 
the crown of the head is black, and is relieved by 
the edges of the feathers being yellowish ; hut the 
auricular feathers, streak from the base of the 
maxilla stretching down the neck, surrounding the 
white of the throat, and occupying the whole breast 
(the white of the other lower parts running up in 
the centre to a point) and the rump, deep black ; 
the back, scapulars, and long tertials, are varied 
with deep black and clear brownish-orange, some 
of the feathers being entirely of either colour, while 
others have the basal half, or the shafts only, black, 
and these colours do not seem to be disposed regu- 
larly, or the same in different specimens ; the outer 
margins of the scapulars are narrowly edged with 
white, which mixes conspicuously in the general 
* Darwin. + Dr. Smith. 
£ Jerdan, Madras Journ. of Science, July, 1840, p. 211. 
§ Temminck. 
|| Yarrell. Specimens in Museum of Linnean Society. 
