156 THE BIEDS OF OXFOEDSHIEE. 



dress, and a specimen in remarkably fine plumage, now in his 

 possession, was shot there on the 9th May, 1888. In the 

 north of the county it has occurred more rarely. One was 

 shot while wading- in company with two others in a partly- 

 flooded meadow at Souldern, on the 9th November, 1883 (F. 

 Stanton in lit.'), and in severe weather, on the 20th March, 

 1888, Mr, W. "W. Fowler observed a single bird in one of the 

 Evenlode meadows (which had been artificially inundated) at 

 King-ham. On the 4th November, 1888, I distinctly heard 

 the whistle which the Dunlin utters on the wing, in some 

 partly-flooded meadows at Kingham ; the light was bad, and 

 I could not detect the bird. A few minutes later a Curlew 

 flew over. 



THE LITTLE STINT. 



Tringa minuta. 

 The Little Stint is a rare occasional visitor. The Messrs. 

 Matthews record that several had been killed near Oxford, the 

 occurrences, as far as they remembered, being always in sjDring 

 or autumn, and they particularize a pair shot by the late Mr, 

 Pinfold, of Beaumont Street, in the spring of 1832 [Zoologist, 

 p. 2602). The Rev, H, A. Macpherson kindly communicates 

 the fact that among the correspondence of the late Mr, T. C. 

 Heysham, of Carlisle, is a letter from the Rev. G. Clayton, of 

 Marsh Hadham, Herts, dated 17th December, 1832, in 

 which the latter mentions having shot a Little Stint at 

 Oxford. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 

 Tringa temmlnclii. 

 Temminck^s Stint is a spring and autumn visitor to the 

 shores of Great Britain, but of much less common occurrence 

 than the preceding species. It has occurred in Oxon as an 

 occasional visitor, but very rarely. A pair shot on Port 

 Meadow, on the 24th August, 1848, are mentioned by the 

 Messrs. Matthews, who remark that it had been ' found in the 



