300 CHARADRIIDA 
TEMMINCK’S STINT. Zringa temmincki (Leisler). 
Coloured Figures. — Gould, ‘Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, 
pl. 73; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pls. 550, 
fig. 2, 551; Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 36. 
Temminck’s Stint is a scarce and an irregular migrant to 
the British Isles in autumn and winter. Most records have 
been made from the south-eastern side of Kngland, extend- 
ing to Cornwall and the Channel Isles. Not a few birds 
have visited Breydon in Norfolk, especially in autumn 
(Stevenson, ‘Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. 1, pp. 3638-366). 
North of Norfolk this species is much rarer. It has 
also visited the following inland counties :—Middlesex, 
Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lancashire. Along 
the entire western coast of Britain it is a very rare visitant. 
Since 1832 only six examples have been recorded between 
the Solway district and the estuary of the Dee (Saunders). 
In Scotland it has been recorded on a few occasions 
from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Caithness. 
In Ireland, a single specimen was obtained, in January, 
1848, the only one that has been secured in midwinter in 
the British Isles. It was shot on a fresh-water pool near 
Tralee, co. Kerry. Though recorded by Thompson in his 
‘Natural History of Iveland,’ yet the writer did not 
appear to have seen the bird, which was procured by 
Chute. However, Mr. Ussher inspected the Chute collec- 
tion in Tralee in 1893, and there discovered a Temminck’s 
Stint in winter-plumage, most likely the same bird. 
This species, in winter-plumage, may be distinguished 
from the Little Stint by the great preponderance of uniform 
greyish-brown colour of the back and wings. The former 
is like a miniature Common Sandpiper, whereas the Little 
Stint strongly resembles a small Dunlin in nuptial plumage 
except for the black breast. 
Temminck’s Stint resorts chiefly to the slob-lands of 
tidal estuaries ; less frequently it visits inland shores. 
Flight.—The flight resembles that of the Little Stint. 
Food.—Various kinds of insects, grubs, and worms, form 
the chief diet; these are often found mixed with small frag- 
ments of grit. 
Voice.—In the breeding season a pleasing twittering 
or warbling note is uttered by both sexes, as the birds flit 
to and fro. The call-note in autumn is a sharp péirr, often 
sounded as the bird ascends high in the air. 
