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Anson’s voyage round the world,’ a remnant of whose famous 
ship the ‘Centurion,’ it occurs to me as I write, to mention, 
I have hung against my wall among other relics, as being 
also one of the first of H.M.S. that my father went to sea 
in;—‘ignoscas recordationis benevolens lector.’ 
In Yorkshire I have seen them on Filey Brigg, that is, 
Bridge, the base of an ancient cliff, formerly extant, but long 
since washed into the sea, and which, at low water, is dry 
for a considerable distance. The species has also been known 
at the mouth of the Tees, and on other parts of the coast, 
preferring rocky places. Littoral birds, they frequent the sea¬ 
shore, but are at times met with on the banks of the larger 
rivers and lakes. 
The Bev. B. P. Alington has met with it, though but rarely, 
on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber. In Norfolk it is 
found, but not in large numbers, arriving in autumn, and 
retiring again in spring, in the former in August, and in the 
latter it has been observed so late as the 26th. of May. In 
Cornwall, near Falmouth, it is rare. It occurs also in Wales. 
This is another of our winter visitants, arriving the end of 
August, and departing in March, April, or May; in the one 
case in anticipation of the production of a family, and in the 
other after that event. The young, when full grown, quit, in 
most localities, the place of their birth, and, in company with 
their parents, move southwards along the coast. These, for the 
most part, compose the small flocks of Turnstones that are 
seen. 
They are birds of sociable habits, both among themselves, 
and towards different kinds, but are shy, otherwise, of approach. 
They may, however, easily be tamed, and kept in confinement: 
one has been known to eat out of the hand. They appear 
to be fond of bathing. The parents exhibit great attachment 
to their young, but, as is the case with another species, 
their too great fondness is sometimes the ruin of their offspring, 
their cries of distress at the approach of an intruder directing- 
attention to them. The like cause produces great pugnacity 
in them towards other larger sea-fowl; and especially towards 
the predatory Gulls, who have a natural inclination for the 
eggs of other kinds. 
A curious circumstance is mentioned in the ‘Zoologist,’ 
page 2652, by Mr. James C. Garth, of one of these birds 
having been shot out of a flock of pigeons, and also quite 
inland, namely, near Knaresborough, in the West-Biding, in 
