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FAMILIAR WILD BIRDS. 



surface pure white. The_pluraage, on the whole, is very 

 simijar to that of the Dunlin at all seasons^ except that it 

 lacks the bl ack breast in summer. The bird is, of course, 

 much smaller. 



In addition to the places already mentioned as visited 

 by the Little Stint, Temminck speaks of it as having been 

 observed, in its spring and autumn passages, in Germany, 

 Holl^and, and France, whilst other authorities mention 

 South Africa, India, the Caucasus, and Trebizond. The 

 Little Stint was first described as a British bird by 

 Pen_nant, from a specimen killed in Cambridgeshire!^ }( 



