temminck's stint 401 



it was decidedly wild, and for several days baffled all my 

 attempts to shoot it." 



Mr. W. Prentis, in his Birds of Bainham, states that 

 " a pair was obtained on September 17, 1881 ; they were 

 shot flying along a ditch on an island marsh." There are 

 specimens in the Canterbury Museum, obtained at Sand- 

 wich in August, 1887 and 1888, by Mr. W. Oxendon 

 Hammond. Dr. K. B. Sharpe obtained the Little Stint 

 in Ptomney Marsh on September 5. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Triiifja temmincJii, Leisler. Naclitrdge zu Bechst. 

 Nafurg. Deutschl, pp. 63-73 (181-2). 



This Stint is rare in Kent, and appears on the coast 

 not only in the autumn, but from the following particulars 

 it has been taken in the summer. 



The first record is that given by Mr. J. W. Hulke, of 

 Deal, who says : " On September 6, 1850, I shot a fine 

 specimen of Temminck's Stint, which was running 

 about with a Wagtail in a small plash near the beach." 

 Mr. W. H. Power obtained one in the Kainham Marshes ; 

 he writes : " On July 19 (1865) I noticed a bird of this 

 species running along the edge of a pool. Mistaking it 

 for a Sandpiper, I took some trouble to put it up, and 

 having shot it, was greatly surprised to see that I had 

 got a Temminck's Stint. It was a bird of the year, and 

 in plumage differed greatly from an adult of the same 

 species ; the markings on the back were almost exactly 

 similar to those of Schinz's Sandpiper in Yarrell. 



"Again, on September 9, 1865, a pair of these Stints, 

 flying up the creek, passed within range of the sea-wall, 

 upon which my brother and I were sitting waiting, and 

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