BIRDS OF KOLGUEV 435 
two were males. During the nesting season and up to about the fifth 
week in August, parties of little stints numbering five, ten, or fifteen 
birds or so, might certainly be seen flying in and about the lakes. 
When flying in this way, these birds look very like larks and make a 
twittering noise. No words could adequately convey a good idea of the 
complicated ruses adopted by this tiny wader near the nest: nor could 
one express phonetically the various notes it then utters. Thus: 
‘July 10, The little stint who had the nest made while feigning lame- 
ness, etc., a noise exactly like the squeaking of a house-mouse.’ ‘ July 
12, Took one nest of little stint with four eggs. One bird only at the 
nest as usual—a male. It behaved, as H. said, like a dancing doll, 
jumping up and down on the same spot as if on springs.’ 
T. temmincki LEISLER. Temminck’s Stint. 
I saw very few of these birds on Kolguev, and none that seemed to 
be nesting. I shot a female that was alone on the Scharok mud-flats 
on July 16. I saw three together by a gully stream on Pesanka plateau 
on August 7. 
T. striata LINN. Purple Sandpiper. 
Pesoschnik morskot (R.). 
The first occurrence of this bird was on June 22, when I shot a pair 
high up by a stream in the Gusina country. On two occasions we saw 
a single bird, once two, once three, and once five together on the sands 
of the eastern side of the island. The last of these occurrences was on 
September 8. They showed none of the solicitude of nesters. 
Calidris arenaria (LINN.). Sanderling. 
Morskot-sugok (R.). 
The first we saw was a bird I shot off the sands at Scharok on 
July 11. It proved to be a male and was in summer plumage. On 
August 27, large parties of the birds were feeding at the edge of the 
tide on the outer sand-banks: an occasional individual retained some 
rufous feathers on the back, but in the great majority only black 
feathers showed against the grey. 
