50 TEMMINCR’S STINT. 
were met with on the banks of the Nede, near Wisbeach, 
September 8rd., 1851. In Sussex one at Newhaven, on the 
5th. of the same month, and two were killed near Chichester 
in 1826. In Kent, one near Deal, the 5th. of September, 
1850. 
It performs a spring and autumnal migration, the former 
to, and the latter from, the north; and these respectively 
about the latter end of May, or even the beginning of June, 
it is asserted, and the middle of August. It moves at such 
seasons by night. 
These Sandpipers frequent the borders of lakes, ponds, 
marshes, and rivers, at a distance inland, but are also some- 
times to be found on the sandy edges of creeks of the sea, 
and along its shores. They are not of a shy nature, but 
when in company with birds that are, partake of their more 
nervous manners. They assemble together in smaller or larger 
flocks, and join also with other species. 
Its flight is particularly rapid, and all its motions are 
quick and lively. It runs about in a horizontal position 
with the bill pointed downwards. 
The prey it feeds on is composed of flies, gnats, beetles, 
and other insects and their larvz, mollusca, and worms. It 
also swallows some sand, and also vegetable substances, but 
perhaps unwillingly. 
The note is only a ‘tirrr, tirrr.’ 
Male; weight, six drachms; length, from five inches and a 
quarter, or five and a half, to five inches and three quarters; 
bill, dull black at the tip, and browner at the base; from 
it to the eye there is a dusky streak, and over it another 
indistinet streak, which in winter is white. Iris, dark brown; 
forehead, grey reddish brown, with small black streaks and 
spots in winter. Head on the crown, neck on the back, and 
nape, pale ferruginous brown, broadly streaked on each feather 
angularly with dark brown, in winter ash grey varied with 
dark brown; neck on the sides, grey reddish brown, with 
very small longitudinal black streaks and spots; chin, white; 
throat and breast above, pale brown, spotted with dusky 
brown and tinged with buff; below, white; the back feathers 
are black with rufous margins; in winter 1t is nearly uniform 
dusky greyish brown tinted with olive, with narrow lighter- 
coloured edges. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest, but the 
second almost of the same length; the axillary plume white; 
