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BRITISH BIRDS. 
TURNSTONE. 
SEA DOTTEREL, OR HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER. 
i^Tringa interpres, Lin . — Le Coulon-chaud^ Buff.) 
This is a plump made, and prettily variegated 
bird, and meafures about eight inches and a quarter 
in length : the bill is black, ftraight, ftrong, and 
not more than an inch in length : the ground colour 
of the head and neck is white, with fmall fpots on 
the crown and hinder parts ; a black ftroke crolTes 
the forehead to the eyes ; the auriculars are form- 
ed by a patch of the fame colour, which, pointing 
forward to the corners of the mouth, and falling 
down, is fpread over the hdes of the bread, whence 
afcends another branch, which, like a band, goes 
