TURNSTONE. 
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GENUS XL — STItEPSILAS, Illigf.r. 
199. STREFSILAS IRTERFltES, ILLIG TEINGA INTEBFEES, WILS. 
TURNSTONE, 
"XLSOX, PLATE LVII. FIG. I, EHINBURGII COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This beautifully variegated species is common to both 
urope and America; consequently extends its migra- 
loiis far to the north. It arrives from the south on 
e shores of New Jersey in April ; leaves them early 
JU June ; IS seen on its return to the south in October; 
and continues to be occasionally seen until the com- 
mencement of cold weather, when it disappears for the 
season. It is rather a scarce species in this part of the 
world, and of a solitary disposition, seldom minglinff 
amon^ the large Hocks of other sandpipers ; but either 
coursing the sands alone, or in company with two or 
ttree of its own species. On the coast of Cape May 
- , gg Harbour, this bird is well known by the name 
or the horse-foot snipe, from its living, during the 
s of May aud June, almost 'w holly on the effffs 
or spawn of the great king crab, called here by the 
„ people the horse-foot. This animal is the 
is * polyliemus of entomologists. Its usual size 
in fifteen inches in breadth, by two feet 
'j'L ’ though sometimes it is found much larger, 
above e JOfepart, is semicircular, and convex 
lower’ si " ^ elastic, shelly case. The 
and claw honcave, where it is furnished with feet 
extreraitv those of a crab. The posterior 
tail, by meanTe#^ ^'^rd, pointed, dagger-like 
the animal *** ^hich, when overset by the waves, 
may be disH^'- 
Wfl-e claws bn female by his tut) 
the fnreens hook each, instead of 
below Frisi a*” bay of Delaware. 
River f'evo *” "'b^t is usually called Maurice 
their nriec’ 1*^*® ®{’''“®'tures seem to have formed one of 
n«r principal settlements. The bottom of this cove 
