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TRINGA TEMMINCKI, Leisler. 

 TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Since the distinguishing characteristics of this minute 

 Tringa have been better understood, specimens have 

 been identified in Norfolk in very many instances. This 

 species was not included by Messrs. Sheppard and 

 Whitear in then- Catalogue in 1825, nor by Mr. Hunt in 

 his " List " pubHshed in 1829 ; but in Selby's " British 

 Ornithology " " a male and female, killed in Norfolk in 

 May^ 1830," are stated to be in his possession ; and in 

 the "Magazine of Natural History" for 1837 (new 

 series, vol. i., p. 117), Mr. J. D. Hoy has recorded two 

 specimens, birds of the year, as killed near Yarmouth, 

 in September, 1835, and an adult bird, on Breydon, in 

 the foUowrug May. Messrs. Paget (1834), speaking of 

 the little stint as " not uncommon about Breydon,'* 

 remark " probably the Tringa temmincJci occurs too ;" 

 and in 1846 it was described by Messrs. Gurney and 

 risher as appearing "occasionally" but "less regularly 

 and much less numerously." A specimen in the late 

 Mr. S. Miller's collection, was probably procured at 

 Yarmouth some years ago.^ 



As this stint is, I think, generally considered more 

 rare than it really is, I subjoin all the instances in 

 which, to my knowledge, it has occurred in Norfolk of 

 late years; whilst others have, no doubt, passed un- 

 noticed, or at least unrecorded, during that period. 



1843. Mr. W. E. Fisher, then Hving at Yarmouth, 

 as stated by Morris in his " British Birds," knew of four 

 shot there in September and October of this year, and 



* In Mr. Spalding's collection at Westleton, is a Temminck's 

 stint, shot by himself out of a flock of ten, ou Benacre Bi'oad, 

 SuSblk, about twenty years ago. 

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