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we each killed one. They proved to be adult birds in 

 winter plumage. The above mentioned are the only 

 specimens of this Stint that I ever met w'ith near 

 Rainham. 



" On May 22, 1866, my brother, Mr. G. E. Power, 

 found a Temminck's Stint frequenting the marshes in 

 the neighbourhood of Eainham. After some trouble he 

 succeeded in shooting it, an adult female in plumage 

 intermediate between that of summer and winter." 



" Again, on the 25th of the same month, he succeeded 

 in obtaining another, also a female. This latter had nearly 

 attained its summer plumage. We have now obtained 

 five of these comparatively rare Stints during the last 

 ten months, all within a radius of about a quarter of 

 a mile. They are, however, the only birds of the genus 

 that have been heard of in the neighbourhood." 



Mr. W. Prentis obtained this bird in the Isle of 

 Sheppey. He also picked up a Temminck's Stint in 

 winter plumage on November 1, 1869. 



CUELEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa subarquata (A. J. Giildenstadt). 

 Novi Coinment. Acad. Petropol., xix., p. 471 (1774). 



Pygmy Curle\Y, Boys, 1792. 



It appears from wdmt Mr. H. Seebohm states regarding 

 this bird that '* it was first recorded as a British bird 

 by Latham, who obtained an example in 1786 which 

 was shot near Sandwich," but without a reference to 

 Latham's record. Boys, in his Birds of Sandwicli, 

 1792, under the name of Pygmy Curlew, records " a 

 single instance at Sandwich." Pennant, in 1812, writes : 



