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twelve, haunting lagoons and estuaries. Being a 
quick flyer and very wary, it does not often figure 
in the amateur gunner's bag, although it is a very 
regular visitor to localities such as Lake Connewarre 
and the Lower Barwon Flats, where there is abundance 
of the small shell-fish and crabs on which it feeds. 
A small flock was seen at the Lakes in the first week 
of June, 191 2, so that as in the case of so many other 
Waders, it would appear that a certain number of 
individuals spend the winter as well as the summer 
here. 
LITTLE STINT 
Pisobia minuta ruficollis 
Of all the twenty odd species which pass under the 
popular term " Sandpiper," the Little Stint is at 
once the smallest in size, and in point of numbers 
the most abundant. Measuring rather less than 
6 inches in length, there is but one bird, the Red- 
capped Dotterel, likely to be mistaken for it ; the 
latter, however, is rarely seen in such big flocks as 
the Stint, of which I have sometimes seen as many 
as a thousand together. On the south-eastern side 
of the Big Lake at Connewarre you may frequently 
see such a flock wheeling about in the air, now flashing 
white as the countless tiny breasts turn as one towards 
you, now occulting into brown again. 
The specific name, ruficollis, comes from a rusty 
tinge on the throat, donned in the breeding-season, 
