THE LITTLE STINT — THE DUNLIN 
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THE LITTLE STINT. 
Tringa minuta. 
This little Sandpiper occurs in Unst almost every autumn, in 
small numbers, but I have not beard of it in any other part of 
Sbetland. September is the month in which it usually appears ; 
but it resorts more to the small sheltered pools inland than to 
the shores, and seldom remains more than a week, so that it is 
easily overlooked, except when special search is made for it. 
On a shot being fired, and one or more of their number killed, 
they merely flit away for ten yards or so, and immediately 
resume their search for food, repeating the same process time 
after time as other discharges take place, until, seized with a 
sudden panic, and at length becoming aware of the danger of 
their situation, they rise together and fly wildly away to a con- 
siderable distance, commonly towards the shore, where, if they 
perceive other Sandpipers, they join them without hesitation. 
During the last few years I have carefully examined each flock, 
and shot suspicious looking birds, in the hope of being able to 
find Temminck’s Stint, but my endeavours have been unsuccess- 
ful. The main points of diflerence between the two species are 
shown at a glance in Mr Harting’s Birds of Middlesex.” 
Messrs Baikie and Heddle record the occurrence of one example 
only of the Little Stint in Orkney. 
THE DUNLIN. 
Tringa variahilis. 
PLOVER PAGE — JACK SNIPE (!) 
Judging from the large numbers of Dunlins which are hatched 
in these islands every year, it might reasonably be expected 
that the shores would be crowded with them in winter ; yet at 
that season they are by no means proportionably numerous. 
More than twenty or thirty are seldom seen in a flock, except 
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