362 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



of Breydon mud-flats, the margins of the brackish 

 water,, which at Salthouse divide the shingle from 

 the sea-banks and marshes, are the most favourite 

 resort of this diminutive species, and from whence at 

 different times I have received several. Others have 

 been procured also from the beach at Cromer, Sher- 

 ringham, and Hunstanton, as well as from, the shores of 

 the Blakeney channel, where, according to Mr. Dowell, 

 they are somewhat rare visitants. Messrs. Gurney and 

 Msher have recorded in the "Zoologist" for 1848 

 (p. 2292), the occurrence, on the 13th of September, of 

 a flock of seven on Yarmouth beach, and the following 

 have come under my notice during the last few years : 

 1863. August 12th. Two in Mr. H. Up.cher's collec- 

 tion from Sherringham beach. September 26th. One 

 sent me from Salthouse still retaining a portion of its 

 summer dress. Several others seen at the same time. 



1865. August 5th. Three sent me from. Salthouse 

 in nearly full summer plumage. 



1866. October 19th. One killed on the beach at 

 Hunstanton. 



1868. May 20th. A^male, in full summer plumage, 

 sent me from Yarmouth ; and on the 18th of June two 

 more from Salthouse where others had been seen. 



September. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., received one 

 from Cromer. 



1869. July 16th. A fine specimen killed at Yar- 

 mouth. Two others shot a week or two before were, 

 unfortunately, not preserved. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me that on one occasion 

 when shooting at Salthouse, a little stint having been 

 only slightly wounded in the whig, he carried it alive 

 to Cromer, and turned it loose in his room, where, to 

 his surprise, it exhibited so little uneasiness in its 

 new quarters that on the same day it ate flies out of 

 his hand without the least symptom of alarm. 



