150 THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



T. Minuta. Little Stint. 



The Little Stint is a rare casual visitant to the 

 Solway, but has not been detected elsewhere upon 

 our west coast. Mr. A damson has shewn that 1839 

 was an Annus Mirahilis for the Little Stint upon the 

 Solway, James Cooper sending him no less than ten 

 specimens, with the information that he had seen 

 ten times more Little Stints that autumn than in 

 all his previous experience. Of late years, the 

 Little Stints' visits to the Solway have been few 

 and far between. Mr, S. Watson has received 

 several during his long practice as a bird-stuffer, the 

 last, now in Mr. Hodgkinson's jDossession, having 

 been killed at Bowness-on-Solway in the autumn of 

 1879. James Fell also shot a single Little Stint 

 out of a party of Dunlins at Skinburness ; but Mr. 

 A. Smith has never obtained a specimen, and 

 Mr. Tremble has only once shot a Little Stint on 

 Burgh marsh during twenty years' experience. This 

 was a solitary bird, which frequented a creek near 

 the monument. Cooper twice shot Little Stints in 

 winter, e.g., a bird shot on Burgh marsh, November 

 19th, 1831 ; once he shot a Little Stint in summer 

 dress, June 1st, 1839. 



T. Temminclci. Temminck's Stint. ' 



Temminck's Stint is an accidental visitant to 

 the Solway. Two immature birds were shot on 

 Bockliffe marsh, September 1st, 1832 ; a third was 

 obtained on the 5th of the same month. Li 1839, 

 a fourth was shot in the same locality on Sept. 2nd, 

 by James Cooper. 



