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birds are not very uncommon on the Norfolk coast, though doubtless many 

 people are unable to distinguish them, the plumage being quite unlike that 

 of the adults. The ground colour is sandy buff, and most of the feathers 

 on the head and back have black centres, the only features that recall the 

 spring plumage being the broad eye-stripe, which is now buff instead of 

 white, and the long tertiaries with their chestnut margins reaching almost to 

 the end of the wing. Dotterels at this season seldom utter a note, and, when 



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flying, they appear much darker than one would expect. Though tame, and 

 admitting of a near approach, when once flushed, they fly a long distance 

 before they alight, though they move slowly, and look as if they were going to 

 pitch at once. When found on bare shingle they are probably resting, for 

 they are much more addicted to the short turf inside the sea-wall. At Little- 

 stone I once watched a pair for some time. They were on the golf links, and 

 seemed to prefer the "lies" where the grass was short. In the distance 

 they bore a striking resemblance to Mistle Thrushes, which birds, curiously 



