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on a fell meadow, close to where I found the nest 

 of the broad-billed sandpiper. The nest was 

 placed on a tussock of rushy grass in a swampy- 

 part of the meadow, nothing more than a few bits 

 of dry grass. Eggs, four; very pyriform; 

 chocolate-brown covered with a deeper shade of 

 small fine spots all over. This stint does not 

 appear to be confined to the northern tracts of 

 Scandinavia, for I have taken the nest in Werm- 

 land. Strange to say that we none of us can find out 

 the breeding-place of the little stint (T. minuta, 

 Leisl.), nor have I ever seen a well-authenticated 

 egg of this bird. We meet with them not only on 

 all the Swedish coasts during the periods of 

 migration, but even occasionally inland. I fancy 

 their breeding haunts must be somewhere on the 

 northern coasts of Norway, for early in August 

 they are seen all along the Norwegian coast, and 

 often in considerable flocks. There is a great 

 resemblance between these two stints, but they 

 may be always known from each other by this 

 infallible mark : in Temminck's stint the shaft 

 of only the first wing primary is white, of all the 

 others the shafts are brown ; whereas in the little 

 stint the shafts of all the primaries are white in 

 the middle. 



The dusky redshank (T. fuscus, Leisl.; "tscap- 

 pis tschoavtscho ") seems a stranger here, but 



