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TEMMINCK’S STINY. 
TEMMINCK’S SANDPIPER. TEMMINCK’S DUNLIN. 
LITTLE SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Temminckit, SELB x- 
ie | pustules FLEMING. 
. pueilla, Monracu. 
Tringa—...ceve Masse Temminchii—Of Temminck, 
Tuts is the smallest of our British Sandpipers. It has 
been named after M. Temminck, the celebrated naturalist, who 
was the first to distinguish it from the other. 
It is said to have its young in the north of Europe, and 
is seen during its passages in Italy, Switzerland, France, 
Germany, and Holland. It also visits North Africa; and in 
Asia it belongs to Siberia, the northern provinces of Asiatic 
Russia, India, Himalaya, and the Dukkun, Timor, and other 
islands of the Indian Archipelago. 
Specimens have been obtained in Cornwall, at Swanpool 
and Kast Looe; Devonshire; Middlesex, near Kingsbury; 
Cambridgeshire, on Foulmire Moor; Norfolk; Yorkshire; 
Cumberland, at Rockcliff Salt Marsh; and Essex. 
William Richard Fisher, Esq., of Yarmouth, has written 
me word that he possesses two specimens of this bird killed 
at Great Yarmouth, the one in the month of May, and the 
other he believes in September; and that he knew of four, 
in all, shot in September and October, 1843; other two, a 
male and female, were shot in the same county in May, 
1830: it seems to occur there not very rarely. In Cornwall 
it appears to be by no means uncommon in the salt marshes 
about Penzance and Marazion—a flock of at least a dozen 
was seen in the middle of August, 1853. In Suffolk two 
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