BIRDS. 
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E.-B., iii. p. 294). Dunlins are not often seen at Loch 
Assynt, and we cannot recall more than one or two instances 
of noticing them in nearly twenty years' experience of the 
locality. A few breed, however, near the west end of 
Loch Assynt, or about three miles down the river Inver, 
on a piece of flat moss or flow. 
Caithness name — "Plovers page." An indigenous species, 
breeding abundantly in all suitable localities on the moors, 
such as flows, bogs, etc. A few occur at the mouth of the 
Wick river even in very severe weather (0. MSS., 1868). 
Observed in 1885, commonly near Holborn Head, by 
the sides of shallow lochs, in the depressions between the 
wind-swept ridges already described. Also very common, 
and exceedingly tame, on the Pentland Skerries, where 
they breed. Common all over the interior of the county, 
on the " fl.ow " ground. 
299. Tringa minuta, Leisl. Little Stint. 
Two specimens are included by Mr. J. Whitaker in his MS. 
List of the birds at Welbeck Abbey as shot on the Duke 
of Portland's Caithness estates, but, as usual in this collec- 
tion, no dates or precise particulars are given. Mr. Eeid 
mentions one as having been shot at Wick on October 7th, 
1874, and now in the collection of Mr. Eric M'Kay, nor 
does he seem to consider them as very rare. 
300. Tringa temminckii, Leisl. Temminck's Stint. 
[In the collection of Dr. Sinclair (?), and in the reproduced 
List of Mr. E. I. Shearer.] 
301. Tringa minutilia, Vieill. American Stint. 
