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June, but, as a rule, it departs for its northern breed- 

 ing haunts long before that date. 



It is sparingly distributed on the eastern coasts 

 of Scotland, but has not been met with on the 

 western shores. It appears in Ireland as a regular 

 autumnal visitant, but in limited numbers. 



I have often met with this little bird in spring 

 and autumn at Pagham Harbour, Sussex ; at Kings- 

 bury Reservoir, Middlesex ; Breydon Harbour, Nor- 

 folk ; and Aldeburgh, Suffolk ; and at the last-named 

 place I once shot a Little Stint and a Temminck's 

 Stint out of the same flock in September. 



The nest of the Little Stint was first discovered 

 by Middendorf on the Taimyr river, in Asiatic 

 Siberia, in 1872; but Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie- 

 Brown were the first to take the eggs in Europe, in 

 68^° N. lat., near the mouth of the Petchora river, in 

 July 1875. See the account of their discovery, with 

 coloured figures of the eggs, Ibis, 1876, p. 294. Since 

 then, others have been obtained near Archangel, in 

 the Kola Peninsula, in Northern Norway, and in 

 Novaya Zemlya by Messrs. Pearson and Feilden, who 

 in the account of their journey "Beyond Petsora East- 

 ward " (1899), have given coloured figures of the eggs 

 with photographs of nest and eggs, and sitting bird. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. Tringa temminckii, Leisler. 

 PI. 21, fig. 9. Length, 5-75; bill, 0-6; wing, 3-75; 

 tarsus, 0'6 in. 



A spring and autumn migrant, but much rarer 

 than the last named. In Scotland it has been met 



