2462 The Zoologtst — February, 1871, 



leisure to incorporate a few additions now scattered about here and 

 there, in rather a bewildering manner ; but it seems to me that by 

 a combination of these records with a sketch of the opinions 

 expressed by leading ornithologists, a very readable paper might be 

 compiled, without assuming anything approaching to anlhoritative 

 teaching: there is a great advantage in collecting and preserving 

 such details, for they cannot fail to be useful hereafter. It will, 

 indeed, be a note-worthy fact in Ornithology should it hereafter be 

 shown that this very marked type exists only in the British islands ; 

 yet this appears to be the general impression at the present day. 



Of Temminck's stint several specimens appear to have occurred 

 in Norfolk, and all to have been carefully chronicled. Mr. Steven- 

 son recites the familiar but very pleasant passage, from Mr. WoUey's 

 pen, of its breeding haunts in Northern Europe, which Mr. Hewitson 

 has quoted in his ' Oology,' but it will not, T trust, be considered 

 altogether out of place if I make an addendum from ' A Spring and 

 Summer in Lapland,' by the Old Bushman, who found its nest 

 and eggs. " The nest, placed on a tussock of rushy grass in a 

 swampy part of the meadow, was nothing more than a few bits of 

 dry grass. Eggs four ; very pyriforin ; chocolato-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 Wermland. Strange to say that we none 

 of us can find out the breeding- place of ihe little stint, 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." This latter bird has occasionally 

 been obtained in Norfolk, perhaps some score of specimens. Mr. 

 Gurney obtained one when shooting at Sallhouse : being but 

 slightly wounded in the wing 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 

 Hies out of his hand without the least symptom of alarm. 



Under the dunlin Mr. Stevenson has given some account of a 

 mode of capturing dunlins and other birds that is quite new to me, 

 although probably not equally so to my readers. Be this as it may, 

 it seems desirable to reproduce it here, for I feel very sure that it 



