Description.
crofied with dufky lines : ridge of the wing white : legs blueilh
alh-colour.
Thefe birds vary. That in the Britijh Zoology has the fore*
headj chin, and fore part of the neck, cinereous brown : back
and fcapulars brown; the feathers margined with afh-colour:
tail alh-colour; the outer feather on each fide white: toes divided
to the bottom. We have alfo feen other inconfiderable
varieties.
Thefe birds frequent the coafts of Lincolnjhire in great numbers,
and are caught in nets by means of Stale Birds; fourteen
dozen have thus been taken at once * : the feafon, from Augufi
to November. In general difappear with the firft frofts ; yet
Edwards’% bird was bought in the London markets in the hard
froft 1740, which did not commence till Chrijlmas 1739. Are
fatted as the Ruffs, and are by fome even preferred to thofe
birds f .
This fpecies has alfo been obferved about Lake Baikal-, and
Mr. Pennant mentions a fpecimen which came from New Tork.
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TURNSTONE. 4.— Tringa interpres, Lin. Syjl. i. p Faun* Suec.% N° 178.—Brun,
N° 17 5.— Muller, N° 193.
Le Coulon-chaud, Brif, Orn. v. p. 132. 1._PI, Enl. 856.
Le Tourne-pierre, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 130. pi. 10.
Turnftone, or Sea Dotterel, Rail Syn. p. 112. A. 5.— ^//. Or», p. 311,
pi. 58. (bad figure).— Edvj. pi. 141.
Hebridal Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. ND 200.— FI or. Scot. N° 152. pi. 3. ?
Ar8. Zool. N° 382.
Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of a Thrujh: length eight inches and a quarter. Bill
nearly one inch j colour black, and turns a trifle upwards:
They were fatted with bread and milk. IVillughhy •
forehead,
forehead, throat, and belly, white : breaft black: neck furround-
ed with a black collar; from thence another bounds the fides of
the neck, and paffes over the forehead : head and lower part of the
neck behind white; the firft ftreaked with dulky lines : back ferruginous
mixed with black: coverts of the tail white, crofied with
a black bar: tail black; tipped with white: coverts of the wings
cinereous brown ; the lower order edged with white : primaries
and fecondaries black; the ends of the laft white : tertials ferruginous
and black : legs rather fhort, and of a full orange.
Male and female much alike.
In Edwards’s bird the lower part of the back and rump are
white. In that defcribed by Willughby no mention is made of
any white on the forehead or chin; and the middle of the back
is white : yet in other things it fcarcely differs.
Thefe birds appear in flocks on the weftern Ihores of England,
about Penzance and Cornwall, and Aberdaren in Merionetbjhire,
three or four in company; alfo frequent on the Ihores of Norfolk,
and in Shropfhire. Are met with likewife in America. Appears in
Hudfon's Bay in May, and departs in September. Makes a flight
neft on the dry ground, and lays four olive-coloured eggs, fpotted
with black, and hatches early. The young feen the middle of
July. The natives call it Gega-wafbue.
The name of Turnftone has arifen from the method of fearching
for infefts, by turning up the ftones they lurk under with theic
bills, which are ftout for that purpofe.
Place akd
Manners*
Tringa