TEMMINCK’S STINT. 363 
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 their Catalogue in 1825, nor by Mr. Hunt in 
his “List” published 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 following May. Messrs. Paget (1834), speaking of 
the little stint as “not uncommon about Breydon,” 
remark “probably the Tringa temmincki occurs too ;” 
and in 1846 it was described by Messrs. Gurney and 
Fisher 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. R. Fisher, then living 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, on Benacre Broad, 
Suffolk, about twenty years ago. 
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