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counted no less than sixty from where I stood, with the foam and sand 
drifting in my face, under the blast from the 8.W. ‘The birds were so 
exhausted that I nearly caught them by hand; but if the weather 
moderates they will no doubt leave us as suddenly as they came. Some 
five-and-twenty years ago an irruption of these birds took place under 
similar circumstances, successive southerly gales at the same part of the 
coast.” 
Woodcock (p. 318). 
Mr. Vincent Calmady reported that there were three Woodcock’s nests 
in the covers at Tetcot in the spring of 1892, 
Jack Snipe (p. 329). 
Mr. C. O. Clark shot a Jack Snipe as early as September Ist at Post 
Bridge, Dartmoor, in 1880; and the next season two or three on 
September 5th in Fox Tor Mire, near Princetown. (‘ Field, Sept. 17th, 
1892.) 
Dunlin (p. 332). 
We find from our notebook that the 19th July is the earliest date on 
which we have seen pairs of Dunlin with their young on the sands of the 
Barnstaple river ; they had probably come only from Exmoor, where Mr. 
Howard Saunders states, in his ‘Manual of British Birds,’ p. 569, that 
he has seen the young “hardly able to fly.” Lord Lilford saw Dunlin, 
some years ago, in July on “an elevated district of Dartmoor,” and had 
little doubt that the birds had bred there. 
Little Stint (p. 333). 
A flock of thirty was seen and one bird shot on Goosey Pool, Northam 
Burrows, August 1892 (W. B. Hawley). One was shot on the Exe by 
Mr. J. Close, September 13th, 1892; and three were killed by Mr. P. 
Brutton near Exmouth, September 26th, 1894. Since the publication of 
‘The Birds of Devon’ we have been able to include the Little Stint 
among the Somerset Birds, having received information of its occurrence 
at Weston-super-Mare. 
American Stint (p. 335). 
A second Devonshire example of this minute Sandpiper was shot by 
Mr. W. Bb, Hawley on the Appledore end of the Northam Burrows on 
22nd August, 1892, exactly at the same spot where Mr. Rickards killed 
