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birds are not very uncommon on the Norfolk coast, though doubtless many 
people are unable to distinguish them, the plumage being quite unlike that 
of the adults. The ground colour is sandy buff, and most of the feathers 
on the head and back have black centres, the only features that recall the 
spring plumage being the broad eye-stripe, which is now buff instead of 
white, and the long tertiaries with their chestnut margins reaching almost to 
the end of the wing. Dotterels at this season seldom utter a note, and, when 
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flying, they appear much darker than one would expect. Though tame, and 
admitting of a near approach, when once flushed, they fly a long distance 
before they alight, though they move slowly, and look as if they were going to 
pitch at once. When found on bare shingle they are probably resting, for 
they are much more addicted to the short turf inside the sea-wall. At Little- 
stone I once watched a pair for some time. They were on the golf links, and 
seemed to prefer the “lies’’ where the grass was short. In the distance 
they bore a striking resemblance to Mistle Thrushes, which birds, curiously 
