Sundry Natural History Scraps More Especially About Birds
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TVill he be so good as to give those of your readers who amuse themselves with Natural History, further information as to his doubts. The former has been so very rarely met with in England, that it is not possible to investigate its changes of plumage and general habits. The few I have seen (all Americans) seemed considera- bly smaller than the Dunlin, slighter in shape, the beak much shorter in proportion, and, in fact, the bird appeared almost in- termediate between it and the Little Stint. P...erhaps he will tell us whether the former, in its summer plumage, acquires a black breast, as the latter always does. Schinz's Sandpiper ap- pears to be an American bird ; the Dunlin (if the American and European races, or whatever they may be, are the same species) seems to be equally distributed on both continents, the Ameri- cans that I have seen being similar in marking to our own, but considerably larger. If Schinz's Sandpiper and the Dunlin are the same species, one would expect to find the former resemble the American Dunlins in size, and not be less than the European birds.
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