. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . t of the hind toe sharper and more curved. Plumage rather compact above, blended beneath, veryshort on the fore part of the head and on the middle of theback ; scapulars elongated and narrow. Wings long, narrow,pointed; quills twenty-six; primaries tapering, the firstlongest, the rest rapidly giaduatcd; outer secondaries short,incurved, obliquel
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . t of the hind toe sharper and more curved. Plumage rather compact above, blended beneath, veryshort on the fore part of the head and on the middle of theback ; scapulars elongated and narrow. Wings long, narrow,pointed; quills twenty-six; primaries tapering, the firstlongest, the rest rapidly giaduatcd; outer secondaries short,incurved, obliquely rounded with a point; inner greatly 142 STREPSILAS. TURNSTONE. elongated and tapering. Tail ratlier short, a little rounded,of twelve straight, ratlier broad and rounded feathers. This genus is very intimately allied to Hsematopus,agreeing Avith it in almost every particular, excepting theform of the hill, Avhich, hesides heing shorter, is depressed,instead of being compressed, at the end. Only one speciesis as yet known, of which, however, the distribution hasbeen traced to the greater part of Eiuope, the Cape of GoodHope, various countries of Asia, Australia, and the northernparts of America. 143 STRErSILAS INTEHrRES. THE Fig. 13. Tringa Interpres. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. Morinella. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 249,Tringa Interpres. Lath. Ind. Om. II. ^lont. Om. a coUier. Strcpsilas collarisStrcpsilas interpres. Common TurnstoneStrepsilas Interpres. Temm. Man. dOm. Brit. Anim, Interpres. Selb. lUustr. II. Turnstone. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 182. Strepsilas Interpres. Bonap. Comp. List, 46. In tri/ifer, the middle of the hack and the lower partswhite, the fore-neck black, the tipper parts summer, the vpper parts variegated icith black andbroicnish-red. Male.—The Turnstone, wliicli obtains its name ficni asupposed habit of shifting or overturning small
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