T Ü T I N S T O N E .
H U T T A N Y MOE, OF T H E A N C I E N T BRITISH.
COMMON TURNSTONE. HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER.
Streprilas interpru, FLEMING.
Tringa interpret, LINN/EUS.
" morinella, LINN.EUS.
Arenaria cinerea, ERISSON.
Morinellus marinus. RAY.
Sfrepsilas. Sfrepho—To turn. JLaas—A stone.
Interpret—An interpreter. I conjecture from the bird's habit of careful
investigation, and turning over, as a translator docs in the case of the
words of a book.
THE geographical range of this species is wide, extending to all
the four great divisions of the globe. On the European continent
it is plentiful in Iceland, the Ferroe Islands, Russia, Norway,
Sweden, and Denmark, < ireenland and Nova Zembla; and with us
in Shetland, where it breeds, staying throughout the year. It has
also been observed at Madeira, and in Africa—in Senegal, it is said,
and several other parts; so far south as the Cape of Good Hope.
I n Asia, it is included among the birds of Japan, and has been procured
from Sunda, the Molucca Islands, New Guinea, and in India,
near Madras; as also from New Holland. Selby says, that the
species from the American continent is in every respect similar to
our own. and Sir William Jardine has received the young from the
West Indies, from the Island of Tobago.
I n North America, it occurs iu various parts even of the extreme
north, on the shores of the Arctic Sea, and so also in the opposite
direction, down to the bleak and barren Straits of Magellan, the
passage through which can never, it seems at least to me, be dissociated
from the recollection of ' Lord Anson's voyage round the