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Stint, which are much greyer in colour, and the eggs 

 are miniature Dunlin's eggs. I have, however, one 

 clutch of eggs of Erolia m. minuta which approximates 

 to the type of E. temminckii. It is rather remarkable 

 that Seebohm makes so little mention of the Little 

 Stint in his account of his visit to Golchika in 1877. 

 He says merely : "I shot a couple of female Little 

 Stints, the first I had seen in the valley of the Yenesei," 

 and again : "On the liills I shot a male Little Stint." 

 We are left to infer that these were the only birds he 

 saw, and yet he spent six days in the place and made 

 two or three excursions over the tundra. Owing to a 

 series of accidents, he did not reach Golchika until 

 July 17th, by which time all the eggs would be hatched ; 

 but the birds must have been feeding their young, and 

 ought to have been in evidence for some time after that 

 date. It seems incredible that such a great ornithologist 

 could have overlooked this species, and yet, judging 

 from its occurrence at Golchika in 1914, it would be 

 impossible to go ashore, either on the island or on the 

 mainland, and not see half a dozen birds. 



