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attract me still farther; she shuffled .along the ground as if Ian e 
she dropped her wings, as if unable to fly, and oecasionally 
rested on^her breast, quivering her drooping wings and spread 
tail as if dying. I threw one of my gauntlets at her, thinking 
o';:curetr without dmnage, but she was too quick fflr me 
Pinttiich then fired at her, and missed. He lollowta ner 
for Lme distance, but she kept 
flew away. We waited about a quarter of an hour at the nest 
alkinJand making no effort to conceal ourselves, when she 
flew suaight up and alighted within easy 
her The Little Stint seems to be a very quiet bird at tne 
nest quite different from Temminck’s Stmt. W hen you invade 
a co’lo^iv of the latter birds, especially if they have young, the 
accompanied his brother’s 
exStion to the Arctic Ocean in 1895, has kindly sent ine he 
good fortune fo ta^e fflteen clutdmSf Iggsjfoe fi|t being found 
o^Tulv foe 6th and the last on the day of our departure July 
T cth • each clutch, with two or three exceptions, consistm^ of 
f ^ AfTcro The rest ns is usual in this tribe, is a very s ig 
Sr^a^s'maU culMhapeil hollow scratched in the sod, and very 
S nSy Uned iitl, Lew dead leaves of dretre w.llotv Ivc 
.'0“ :■» 
Lion S U. Ah the nests, however, agreed m one Po.nt 
"• rVnt thev were within fairly easy reach of tidal w'ater, the 
Es eft iS Sy' rh"receding’.ide being the birdt^ avourfte 
feetog-ground ; above the tidal limit their place is taken by 
Temminck’s Stint. 
