370 BIRDS, OF NORFOLK. 
from the flesh. Number one represents Mr. Gurney’s 
bird ; number two my own :— 
INoF Te No. 2. 
Tip of bill to end oa 8 inches and 6-8ths ,.. 7 inches and 7-8ths 
longest tail feather 
Wing, carpal joint to 
end of longest pei} 5 inches and 1-8th ... 5 inches* 
Bec coact ccs caves soueeters 1 inch and 1-16th ... 1 inch 
Tibia, fulllength ...... 1 inch and 2-8ths_... 1 inch and 2-8ths 
TAnSUS' ete dsmadteenntetes 1 inch and 1-10th ... 1 inch 
Middle toe and claw ... 1 inch . Linch and 1-16th 
The Lynn bird, like Mr. Gurney’s, a aaa has the 
markings on the breast following the shaft of each 
feather, and is evidently immature, but has a single 
new feather with rufous edges in the tail, marking the 
commencement of a spring change, so early even as the 
9th of January. On the back and shoulders the centre 
of each feather is blackish brown, edged somewhat 
broadly with grey, some few having a reddish tinge, 
but none rufous. Greater-wing coverts slightly red at 
the edges, and more markedly so the feathers on the 
head and back of the neck. The measurements of this 
bird, taken after it was mounted, agree with those of my 
own rather than Mr. Gurney’s, and are identical with 
those of an immature foreign specimen, in the same state 
of plumage (No. 246a), in the Norwich Museum. Indi- 
viduals, therefore, of both sexes, no doubt, vary much 
in size as is the case so remarkably with the dunlins 
and some other waders.t+ 
* Proportionate length of quills the same in each specimen. 
+ As Mr. Newton informs me the dimensions of the two speci- 
mens given in the above table ‘“‘are considerably less than those 
of six given by Cassin in Professor Baird’s ‘ Birds of North 
America’ (p. 721); the largest of these measures 9.32 in. in entire 
length, and 5.75 in. in that of the wing; while the smallest, the 
entire length of which is 8.64in., or somewhat less than Mr. 
