366 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
tion the grasshopper warbler, though 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 
Tringe. 
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 Marazion marsh, 
near Penzance,—has not hitherto been observed in 
Norfolk. 
* See also a valuable paper by the same author on “the dis- 
tinguishing characters of some nearly allied species of British 
birds,” in the “ Zoologist”’ for 1867 (p. 973.) 
