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TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



TRINGA TEMMINCKI, Leisler. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Lapland, June 22, 1886. 

 „ 2. Ditto. June 12, 1890. 

 „ 3. Tornea Lappmark, ]May 20, 1892. 

 „ 4. Finland, June lo, 1890. 

 „ 5. Lapland, June 8, 1886. 



In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



Temminck's Stint is an iiTegular spring and autumn migrant to the British 

 Islands, being much rarer in its visits than the Little Stint. 



Mr. Howard Saunders describes the geographical distribution of this species as 

 follows * : — " Temminck's Stint breeds in the northern districts of Norway, and 

 in those parts of Sweden, Russia, and Siberia in Asia which lie beyond the limits 

 of forest-growth ; also, it is said, in the Stanowoi Mountains. Its reported 

 occurrence in Japan is the result of an erroneous identification, but it visits China 

 on its migrations — which extend to the Malay Archipelago — crosses the Central 

 Asian tableland to India, and descends both sides of Africa to lat. 10° N. on the 

 east side, and to Senegambia on the west. A considerable number, however, 

 spend the winter in the Mediterranean basin, and on passage it is found on the 

 shores as well as on many of the inland waters of Europe ; it is, in fact, far more 

 partial than the Little Stint to rivers, lakes and ponds." 



Prof. Collett has published an excellent paper on the breeding-habits of 

 Temminck's Stint as observed by him in Northern Norway in 188U, from which I 

 translate the following extract f : — " In Finmark Tringa temminckii chiefly 

 inhabits certain characteristic localities, where it is regularly to be found, and 

 which one soon learns to recognize beforehand and to fix upon. It nests here 

 always in larger or smaller colonies, seldom or never in single pairs. These 

 localities are low-ljdng level plains covered with heath, Empetrum, or dwarf 



* ' Manual of British Birds,' p. 576. 



t ' Journal fiir Omithologie,' ISSl, pp. 324^326. 



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