Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th September 1958, a t Falsterbo, Sweden, I was watching a small party of twenty-four Little Stints {Calidris minuta) feeding at a drying and shallow po...

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