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Tangier, laying four eggs of a greenish blue 

 colour, blotched and streaked with ash green and 

 dark brown. 



STINT, LITTLE, 

 LITTLE SANDPIPER. 

 TBINGA MINUTA, Flem. 



This diminutive species is met with at various 

 times, generally in autumn, on several parts of 

 the English shores. It occurs abundantly at the 

 same period, and also in winter, in Holland, 

 Germany, Switzerland, and Dalmatia. In France 

 also it has been obtained both in summer and 

 winter. Generally found in company with the 

 Dunlins and Sandpipers, it selects for its food 

 aquatic insects, worms, &c. Of its breeding 

 ground or its habits at that season, very little 

 is known. The egg is said to resemble that of the 

 Common Sandpiper in colour and markings, but 

 is much smaller in size. 



STINT, NORTH AMERICAN. 



TEINGA PTTSILLA, Lin. 



This bird, a native of North America, was 

 recorded in the Zoologist as having occurred at 



