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this month, is in Mr. J. Tomlinson's collection. Sep- 

 tember 12th, two specimens were. shot near Lynn, 

 by Mr. G. Cresswell, as recorded by Dr. Lowe in the 

 "Zoologist" for that year (p. 457). Both were females, 

 and much injured by the shot, but one was preserved 

 for the Lynn Museum. 



Amongst the "British Birds" in the Norwich 

 Museum will be found a nestling of this minute sand- 

 piper (No. 244c), with adult specimens* in full summer 

 plumage, collected by the late Mr. Wolley, from local- 

 ities north of the Bothnian gulf, together with the eggs, 

 till then hardly known. The following most graphic 

 account from Mr. Wolley 's own pen, of the habits of 

 this species in its breeding haunts, is quoted from 

 Hewitson's third edition of the " Eggs of British Birds " 

 " Grassy banks and pastures by the waterside are the 

 kind of places where it takes up its breeding quarters, and 

 it seems to delight to be near houses. Nothing can be 

 more interesting or pretty than this little bird in the 

 early part of summer ; it is so tame that one could often 

 catch it in a net at the end of a stick. At one time it 

 is hovering with its wings raised over its back, or 

 floating about, and it reminds one rather of some insect 

 than any other bird ; at another time it may be standing 

 on the top of a stone or stake, or the gable end of a 

 cottage, and, whether hovering or standing on its perch, 

 it utters a constant trilling note, of which I can best 

 give an idea by saying that it brought to my recollec- 



the " Field " during the last three or four years, the following 

 occurrences of this species. In 1865, about the end of August, two 

 at Thorpe Mere. In 1866, in September, specimens of both Tem- 

 minck's and the little stint were killed near Aldeburgh. May 2nd, 

 1867, one at Thorpe Mere. 



* No. 244a, "male, Karesuando, June 20th, 1854. No. 244b 

 [sex not noted] " Alcola, July 21st, 1853." No. 244c [as above 

 mentioned] " from nest, Alcola, July 21st, 1853." 



