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NOTES ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



MAUD D. HAVILAND. 



At Golchika on the estuary of the Yenesei, Temminck's 

 Stint {Erolia temminckii) is abundant in some spots ; but 

 it is quite dependent upon certain environmental 

 conditions and where these do not occur you may travel 



TEMMINCK'S STINT: INCUBATING. 

 (Photographed by Miss M. D. Haviland.) 



for very many versts along the river banks without seeing 

 a bird. Temminck's Stint, in this district at all events, 

 breeds only in the neighbourhood of rmuiing water, and 

 then only if the bank of the stream is overgrown with 

 dwarf willow. In this it differs from its congener the 

 Little Stint {Erolia m. mimita), which does not breed near 

 running water imless it finds there its characteristic 

 habitat of sphagnum swamp also. This dependence of a 

 species on a certain environment is very interesting and 



