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tundra properly so called, but on the feeding-ground, flat land covered with sand, upon which 

 short grass and bunches of a thick-leaved yellow-flowered plant were growing, abounding also 

 with little lakes and pools. The real tundra is about 150 yards from the water's edge in this 

 place ; and the feeding-ground lies between, scattered over with drift wood of all sorts. The 

 behaviour of the birds at these two nests was exactly the same as at the previous ones. 



" The average size of the twenty eggs we obtained of the Little Stint is about lyg-X f inch, 

 a trifle smaller than the eggs of Temminck's Stint usually are. The ground-colour varies from 

 pale greenish grey to pale brown. The spots and blotches are rich brown, generally large, and 

 sometimes confluent at the large end. They probably go through every variety to which 

 Dunlins' eggs are subject. All the Little Stints' eggs which we found, with one exception, 

 which would probably be a barren one, were very much incubated." 



I am indebted to Mr. Seebohm for the specimen of the Little Stint in down, figured together 

 with the young in down of the Dunlin and Temminck's Stint. From this Plate it will be seen 

 that in this plumage the Little Stint far more closely resembles the Dunlin than Temminck's 

 Stint, differing only in having the hind neck lighter and more yellowish buff and the lower 

 throat and breast washed with ochreous buff, the fore part of the crown and forehead also being 

 washed with rufescent buff. The specimen in question was obtained at Dvoinik, on the 22nd 

 of Julv, 1875. 



