6i4 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



only, and as such it may be classed in localities away from 

 the seaboard, a list of which is here appended : — 



Mentioned in Allis's Report. 



Two were seen, and one shot, near Killerby» in August 

 1843, as recorded by Mark Booth {Zool. 1844, p. 444). 



At Yeadon Moor Reservoir, near Leeds, one was obtained 

 in September 1864 {op. cit. 1864, p. 9289). 



Near Barnsley it occurred in 1869. 



In 1875 one was recorded near York. 



The late Wm. Talbot (" Birds of Wakefield," 1877, p. 27) 

 mentioned two killed from a flock at Cold Hiendley, and 

 three at Horbury Reservoir. 



In Wensleydale it has been noted at Thornton Rust by 

 E. Chapman. 



And at Haxby, near York, one was reported in July 1900. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa temmincki {Leisler). 



Accidental visitant, of extremely rare occurrence. 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, observed : — 



Tringa temmincki. — Little Temminck's Stint — H. Denny writes me, 

 " I have heard of Temminck's Stint being shot on the York Road 

 [Leeds] last year, but I have not seen it." A. Strickland says he has 

 met with minuta or temmincki, or both, but cannot exactly decide 

 which. 



The evidence adduced by Allis's correspondents in support 

 of their records of this, the least of the British Sandpipers, 

 is not of a nature to warrant their inclusion in the history 

 of Yorkshire birds, and the earliest reliable mention of it 

 may be found in the late Prof. W. C. Williamson's Scar- 

 borough List {P.Z.S. 1836, p. 77), where it is stated that 

 one was obtained at Scarborough. 



Temminck's Stint is a rare accidental visitant on migration 

 southward from its breeding grounds in northern Europe, 



