1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TURNSTONE, the name long given l to a shore-bird, from its habit of turning over with its bill such stones as it can to seek its food in the small crustaceans or other animals lurking beneath them. It is the Tringa interpret* of Linnaeus and Strepsilas inlerpres of most later writers, and is remarkable as being perhaps the most cosmopolitan of birds; for, though properly belonging to the northern hemisphere, there is scarcely a sea-coast in the world on which it may not occur: it has been obtained from Spitzbergen …
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