202 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



The specimens in the case were shot hetween 

 Shoreham and Lancing, in Sussex, in January, 1870. 



PIGMY. — (Mature— Autumn and Winter.) 



Case 269. 



The Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy, as it is more 

 commonly called, is here represented in both autumn 

 and winter plumage. 



During- autumn mature birds are not uncommon on 

 the eastern coast, being usually found in small parties 

 of from two or three to half-a-dozen, occasionally, 

 though very seldom, joining with the immature birds 

 of their own species, appearing rather to prefer the 

 company of Dunlins or Knots. 



I have never met with this bird between November 

 and the latter end of April ; the specimen that is 

 shown in its full winter dress being singularly enough 

 killed on Breydon mudflats, on the 26th of May, 1871, 

 the remainder were shot the following autumn in the 

 same locality. 



DUNLIN.— (Immature.) 



Case 270. 



The immature birds are here shown in their first 

 feathers. In this stage they frequently make their 

 appearance on the mudbanks in the south as early as 

 the end of July or beginning of August. 



The specimens in the case were shot in Shoreham 

 Harbour, in August, 1872. 



