362 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
of Breydon mud-flats, the margins of the brackish 
water, which at Salthouse divide the shingle from 
the sea-banks and marshes, are the most favourite 
resort of this diminutive species, and from whence at 
different times I have received several. Others have 
been procured also from the beach at Cromer, Sher- 
ringham, and Hunstanton, as well as from the shores of 
the Blakeney channel, where, according to Mr. Dowell, 
they are somewhat rare visitants. Messrs. Gurney and 
Fisher have recorded in the “ Zoologist” for 1848 
(p. 2292), the occurrence, on the 13th of September, of 
a flock of seven on Yarmouth beach, and the following 
have come under my notice during the last few years :— 
1863. August 12th. Two in Mr. H. Upcher’s collec- 
tion from Sherringham beach. September 26th. One 
sent me from Salthouse still retaiming a portion of its 
summer dress. Several others seen at the same time. 
1865. August 5th. Three sent me from Salthouse 
in nearly full summer plumage. 
1866. October 19th. One killed on the beach at 
Hunstanton. 
1868. May 20th. A male, in full summer plumage, 
sent me from Yarmouth; and on the 18th of June two 
more from Salthouse where others had been seen. 
September. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., received one 
from Cromer. 
1869. July 16th. A fine specimen killed at Yar- 
mouth. Two others shot a week or two before were, 
unfortunately, not preserved. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me that on one occasion 
when shooting at Salthouse, a little stint having been 
only slightly wounded in the wing, he carried it alive 
to Cromer, and turned it loose in his room, where, to 
his surprise, it exhibited so little uneasiness in its 
new quarters that on the same day it ate flies out of 
his hand without the least symptom of alarm. 
