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TURNSTONE. 
regions where they procure their food. The Godwits are 
particularly fond of salt marshes, and are rarely found in 
countries remote from the sea. 
TURNSTONE TRINGA INTERPRET 
Plate LVII. Fig. 1. 
Hebridal Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. p. 472, No. 382. — Le Tourne-pierre, Buff. vii. 
130. PI. enl. 130. — Bewick , ii. p. 119, 121 — Catesby, i. 72 — Beale's Museum , 
No. 4044. 
STREP SILAS INTERPRES.— Illiger. * 
Tourne-pierre a collier, ( Strepsilas collaris, ) Temm. Man. d' Orn. ii. p. 553 — Strepsilas 
interpres, Flem. Br. Zool. p. 110 North. Zool. ii. p. 371 Strepsilas collaris, 
Bonap. Synop. 
This beautifully variegated species is common to both 
Europe and America ; consequently extends its migrations far 
to the north. It arrives from the south on the shores of New 
Jersey in April ; leaves them early in June ; is seen on its 
return to the south in October ; and continues to be occasionally 
seen until the commencement of cold weather, when it dis- 
appears for the season. It is rather a scarce species in this 
part of the world, and of a solitary disposition, seldom mingling 
among the large flocks of other Sandpipers*; but either 
coursing the sands alone, or in company with two or three of 
its own species. On the coast of Cape May and Egg Harbour, 
* This is the only species of Turnstone known, and it is apparently distri- 
buted over the whole world. Its breeding places, according to the Northern 
Zoology , are the shores of Hudson’s Bay and the Arctic Sea, probably in the 
most northern districts. On the Scotch and English coasts they arrive in small 
flocks about the beginning of August, and, as the season advances, congregate 
into larger assemblies, the greater proportion of these are still in their young 
dress, and it is not until the ensuing spring that this is completely changed ; 
in this state they have been frequently described as a second species. Early 
in spring, a few straggling birds, in perfect breeding plumage, may be observed 
on most of our shores, which have either been left at the general migration, or 
remain during the year in a state of barrenness. It is then that the finest 
specimens for stuffing are obtained. — Ed. 
