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Mr. Seebohm’s description of the egg “ 2” every respect 
miniature Dunlin’s” applies to them. Herr Schliiter 
writes: 
“ Figgs of this spectes I have obtained for the first time; 
I have only recewed five eggs in all; coming from the 
neighbourhood of Ulkogruna, in Finland ; my collector 
has observed the birds for a long time, until at last he suc- 
ceeded in finding three nests. One of the sets was already 
hatched ; so that he had to leavett ; there ts not the least 
doubt these eggs belong to the species ‘ Tringa Minuta ;’ 
they are a little bigger than eggs of ‘Tringa Temminckt, 
a yellowish ground colour and large spots on the flat end, 
September 26th, 1885.” 
There is no resemblance whatever in them to those 
varieties of ‘Temmincki’ which are made 0 do duty for 
‘Minuta,’ in so many cabinets. 
THE AMERICAN STINT. 
(Trinca MINUTILLA.) 
Mr. Seebohm says that “zt can scarcely be regarded as 
more than a local race of that bird (Minuta),’ and 
that if the extremes of one race should be mixed with 
extremes of the other, they would be indistinguishable. 
Davie says of the eggs “creamy or buff colour ; 
spotted, and blotched irregularly, and thickly with differ- 
ent shades of brown;” he gives Seebohm’s smallest mea- 
surement “.95 by .75.”’. Mr. Seebohm’s description and 
drawing are very like a small form of the eggs of 
‘Ereunetes Pusillus ’ 
