While this species remains in the United States, although its residence is protracted to many months, very few individuals are met with in as complete plumage as the one represented in my plate with the wings fully extended; for out of a vast number of specimens procured from the beginning of March to the end of May, or from August to May, I have scarcely found two to correspond precisely in their markings. For this reason, no doubt exists in my mind that this species, as well as the Knot and several others, loses its rich summer plumage soon after the breeding season, when the oldest become scarcely distinguishable from the young. In the spring months, however, I have observed that they gradually improve in beauty, and acquire full-coloured feathers in patches on the upper and lower surfaces of the body, in the same manner as the Knot, the Red-breasted Snipe, the Godwits, and several other species. According to Mr HEWITSON, the eggs are four in number, rather suddenly pointed towards the smaller end, generally an inch and four and a half eighths in length, an inch and one and a half eighths in their greatest breadth, their ground colour pale yellowish-green, marked with irregular patches and streaks of brownish-red, and a few lines of black. My drawing of the Turnstones represented in the plate was made at Philadelphia, in the end of May 1824; and the beautiful specimen exhibited in the act of flying, I procured near Camden, while in the agreeable company of my talented friend LE SUEUR, who, alas! is now no more. I have not observed any remarkable difference in the plumage of the sexes at any season of the year. The males I have generally found to be somewhat larger than the females, which, as is well known, is not the case in the Tringa family. My worthy friend, Dr BACHMAN, once had a bird of this species alive. It had recovered from a slight wound in the wing, when he presented it to a lady, a friend of his and mine, who, fed it on boiled rice, and bread soaked in milk, of both of which it was very fond. It continued in a state of captivity upwards of a year, but was at last killed by accident. It had become perfectly gentle, would eat from the hand of its kind mistress, frequently bathed in a basin placed near it for the purpose, and never attempted to escape, although left quite at liberty to do so. TRINGA INTERPRES, _Linn._ Syst. Nat. vol i. p. 248.—_Lath._ Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 738. TRINGA MORINELLA, _Linn._ Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 249. TURNSTONE, TRINGA INTERPRES, _Wils._ Amer. Ornith. vol. vii. p. 32. pl. 57. fig 1. STREPSILAS COLLARIS, _Temm._ Man. d’Ornith, part ii. p. 553. STREPSILAS INTERPRES, _Ch. Bonap._ Synopsis of Birds of the United States, 299. TURNSTONE or SEA-DOTTEREL, _Nuttall_, Manual, vol. ii. p. 30. Adult Male in Summer. Plate CCCIV. Fig. 1.