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tion tlie grasshopper warbler, thougli the resemblance 

 is perhaps slight." 



Mr. Harting has so accurately described in his 

 "Birds of Middlesex,"^ the chief points of difference 

 both in habits and plumage, between Temminck's and 

 the little stint, that I cannot do better than quote his 

 remarks, to assist young collectors in distinguishing 

 these two species. "Temminck's Stint may be re- 

 garded as a miniature common sandpiper, exhibiting 

 a more uniform colour throughout, and having light 

 coloured legs, while the little stint, like a miniature 

 dunlin, displays a more mottled and varied plumage, 

 and has black legs. Nor need the parallel, I think, be 

 confined to the plumage only, for as far as my experience 

 goes, Temminck's stint, like the common sandpiper, 

 affects the soft mud around inland pools and marshes, 

 while the little stint, like the dunlin, prefers the sand 

 and shingle of the sea-shore." This opinion is certainly 

 borne out by the character of the respective localities 

 most frequented by these two species on our Norfolk 

 coast, but the muds of Breydon, with its tidal waters, 

 form a common resort for these and all other kinds of 

 Tringce. 



The American Little Stint, the Tringa ;pusilla of 

 Wilson, — included by Yarrell in the preface to the third 

 edition of his "British Birds," from an example shot 

 by Mr. W. H. Vingoe, on the 10th of October, 1853 

 (see "Zoologist," 1854, p. 4297), in Ma,razion marsh, 

 near Penzance, — has not hitherto been observed in 

 Norfolk. 



* See also a valuable paper by the same author on "tbe dis- 

 tinguishing characters of some nearly allied species of British 

 birds," in the " Zoologist" for 1867 (p. 973.) 



