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TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa TEMMiNCKi, Lcister. 



Though less rare on migration than was formerly supposed, this 

 species is more irregular than the Little Stint in its visits to (Jreat 

 Britain, notwithstandmg that its western breeding-grounds are at no 

 great distance from our northern shores. There is, however, only 

 one very questionable record of its occurrence in Caithness, 

 while few examples, and those at long intervals, have been obtained 

 on the east coast of England between Northumberland and the 

 south of Lincolnshire, in autumn. In Norfolk a good many have 

 been met with at that season — one as late as November 23rd — 

 while about ten have been procured on the return passage in May ; 

 thence it can be traced along the rest of the eastern sea-board 

 and the whole of the Channel to Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. 

 It has also been found inland, as at Kingsbury Reservoir in 

 Middlesex, Foulmire in Cambridgeshire, Mansfield Reservoir in 

 Nottinghamshire, Ribbleton Moor in Lancashire &c. ; but on the 

 west side it is very rare, and only four, or perhaps six instances 

 are on record from the entire Solway district. According to 

 Thompson a specimen was procured near Tralee in Ireland in 

 January 1848 ; a very remarkable date, inasmuch as, with this 



