. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . that 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 graduated ; outer secondaries short,incurved, obl
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . that 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 graduated ; outer secondaries short,incurved, obliquely rounded with a point; inner greatly 142 STREPSILAS. TURNSTONE. elongated and tapering. Tail rather short, a little rounded,of twelve straight, rather broad and rounded feathers. Tins genus is very intimately allied to Hoematopus,agreeing with it in almost every particular, excepting theform of the bill, which, besides being 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 Europe, the Cape of GoodHope, various countries of Asia, Australia, and the northernparts of America. 143 STREPSILAS INTERPRES. THE Tringa Interpres. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 248. Tringa Morinella. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 249. Tringa Interpres. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 738. Turnstone. Mont. Orn. Diet. Tourne-pierre a collier. Strepsilas collaris. Temm. Man. dOm. II. 553. Strepsilas interpres. Common Turnstone. Flem. Brit. Anim. 110. Common Turnstone. Strepsilas Interpres. Selb. Illustr. II. 204. Strepsilas Interpres. Common Turnstone. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 182. Strepsilas Interpres. Bonap. Comp. List, 46. In winter, the middle of the bach and the loicer partswhite, the fore-neck black, the upper parts summer, the upper parts variegated with black andbrownish-red. Male.—The Turnstone, which obtains its name from asupposed habit of shifting or overturning small
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