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northern shores. It is, however, precisely in our northern 

 provinces that its occun-ences are the rarest. Mr. R. Gray 

 says (B. West Scot. p. 321) that he is only able to trace 

 one specimen, shot in Caithness many years ago ; and in 

 Ireland it has only once been recorded by Thompson (B. Ire- 

 land, ii. p. 302). In England, commencing with Northumber- 

 land, we learn from Mr. Hancock that seven specimens were 

 obtained in the month of September between 1832 and 

 1844; and along the coast of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 

 it is a casual visitor of rare occurrence in autumn. In 

 Norfolk, owing perhaps to the numerous keen observers in 

 that county, Temminck's Stint has been more frequently re- 

 corded, and, in addition to many in autumn, Mr. Stevenson 

 cites about ten examples which were obtained on the return 

 passage in May. This Stint does not stay the winter, but 

 one was obtained as late as the 23rd November. In Suffolk, 

 Mr. Hele has obtained it in both spring and autumn ; and 

 the Rev. Leonard Jenyns sent the Author notice of one killed 

 in Cambridgeshire, on Foulmire Moor, by the late Mr. Baker 

 of Melbourne. Mr. Bond informed the Author that he met 

 with a pair of old birds in the spring of 1839, on the margin 

 of Kingsbury Reservoir in Middlesex, and several j'oung 

 ones in the autumn of the same year, obtaining one of the 

 old ones and five young ones. Mr. Harting (B. Middlesex, 

 p. 200) records two more, and on the 4th October, 1871, 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., watched a couple in the same local- 

 ity. Its visits can be traced along the coasts of England, by 

 Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon, 

 to Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. Inland it has been 

 obtained at Mansfield Reservoir, in Nottinghamshire, Ribble- 

 ton Moor, in Lancashire, and some other localities. On the 

 western side of the island its visits are very rare ; Hey sham, 

 however, recorded it as occurring in Rockclifi"e salt-marsh, by 

 the Solway. 



The breeding-grounds of Temminck's Stint commence in 

 the northern districts of Norway, and extend over a great 

 part of Sweden, and across Northern Russia ; also through 

 Asiatic Siberia to the north of the forest-growth, and as far 



