BRITISH BIRDS. 
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the colour of the throat is white, which tapers to a 
point on the fore part of the neck : the upper parts 
of the plumage are dulky, edged with rufty or 
brownifli red^ but fome of the fcapulars next to 
the wings are partly edged with white : the tertials 
are long, and deeply edged and tipped with a fine 
pale rufous brown : the ridge of the wings and baf- 
tard quills are brownifli blacky the lefler coverts 
adjoining the ridge, white : primaries and feconda- 
ries, black, — ^the bafes of the former, and tips of 
the latter, white ; the greater coverts are alfo deep- 
ly tipped with white, which, when the wing is ex- 
tended, forms a bar quite acrofs it: the under 
parts of the plumage, lower part of the back, and 
tail coverts are white, excepting a black patch 
which erodes the rump. The tail confifts of twelve 
black feathers, tipped with white, except the two 
middle ones, which are entirely black : the legs and 
toes are fliort, and of an orange red. The male 
excels the female in the beauty of his plumage ; her 
pyebald marks are not fo diftinfl:, and her colours 
are uniformly more dull and confufed. 
Thefe birds frequent the fea fliores in various 
parts of Great Britain, and have obtained their 
name from their manner of turning over fmall 
ftones in quell of their prey, which lies concealed 
under them. 
This fpecies of Turnllone is chiefly confined to 
the northern, as is the former to the fouthern parts, 
of Great Britain. 
