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sometimes obtained by a single gunner in a day. This 

 species is subject to great variation in plumage i( apart 

 altogether from seasonal changes '' (Stev. B. of N. ii., 380). 

 There are likewise differences of size, which has led some 

 foreign naturalists to distinguish two European species, 

 but Mr. H. Saunders, after examining a large number of 

 specimens, pronounces that there is every gradation 

 between the two extremes (Brit. B. by Yarrell 379, 4th 

 Ed.). The bird is believed not to breed in either Norfolk 

 or Suffolk. 



Little Stint, Tringa minuta, Leisler. 



S. and W. Cat. 43. — Spald. List, xxxvii. Catalogued 

 only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth (S. and W. v. s.) ; one killed there May 21, 1853 

 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 361,); another, a female in 1862 (Bury Museum) ; 

 a male in summer plumage in May 1868 and three others in July, 1869, 

 one of them in full summer plumage on the 16th (Stev. B. of N. ii., 

 362, and id. in Z. 2nd S. 1912) ; several appeared, one obtained 

 in full summer plumage early in Aug. 1880 (id. in Z. 3rd S. vi., 

 377). Not uncommon about Breydon (Paget, Y. 9) ; an adult bird 

 obtained there May 1836 (Hoy in Loudon's Mag. N. H. (N.S.) 1837, 

 i., 117); two or three obtained by Capt. Longe about June 18, and 

 others seen by him quite as late in the season (Stev. B. of N. 

 ii., 361) ; four immature birds shot there Sept. 13, 1870 (id. in 

 Z. 2nd S. 2497), others seen about May 12, 1871 {id. in Z. 2nd 

 S. 2829), a pair of old ones in change Aug. 12, 1872 (id. and J. 

 H. Gurney, jun. in Z. 2nd S. 3317) ; five shot out of a flock Sept. 

 1881, two sent to me by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. (J. H. Gurney, jun. in 

 Z. 3rd S. v., 488) ; thirty-four shot there between Sept. 1 and Sept. 

 17, 1881, seen by Mr. Lowne; some others were shot which he did not 

 see (Lowne in Kit. and H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 325). 



2. In small flocks near Thorpe, specimens obtained in spring and 

 autumn 1865, 1866 (Hele, Aid., 126 and MS.); shot on Aldeburgh 

 Marshes, about 1855, in possession of Mr. Cooke (Carthew MS.); three 

 shot near Aldeburgh Oct. 1868 (A. Claik- Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1697), 

 unusually plentiful in Sept. 1870 ; several shot (J. G. Tuck in Z. 2nd 

 S. 2369), several again in Sept. 1871, 1872, and Aug. 1873 (id. in Z. 2nd 

 S. 2804, 3307, 3799), one Sept. 26, 1877 (id. in Z. 3rd S. i., 496), 

 and a male in adult plumage Aug. 1879 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 3rd S. iv., 52). 



3. Ramsholt (in the Collection of Mr. W. P. T. Phillips). Killed on 

 Bay Island, on the Stour (S. and W. u. s.). 



