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The Little Stint (Vringa minuta) is a charming little Bird, 
whose graceful active movements may be observed in autumn 
on our Hastern coasts. Ut flies rapidly, but most characteristic 
inthe way it runs along the wet sand close to the waves 
aw they retreat, and its rapid movements to eseape the waves 
as they return, It is one of a genus of about fifteen species, 
and amongst them are the Mnglish Birds known as the Knot, 
the Sanderling *, and the Dunlin, as well as different kinds 
of those Birds which are commonly called “ Sandpipers.” 
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The Woodeock (Scolopaw rusticola), 
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Another group of the Birds commonly called “ Sandpipers” 
(amongst them the Common Sandpiper or “ Summer Snipe”), 
with “ Redshanks,” “ Willets,” and “ Tatlers,” may be repre- 
sented by our Common Redshank (Votanus calidris), so widely 
spread and generally well known in England, There are 
seventeen species belonging to this genus, and they are all to 
be found within the Northern Hemisphere. 
* Somo consider this to belong to a distinet genus, and name it Calidris 
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