CURLEW SANDPIPER. 215 
TEMMINCK’S STINT. 
TRINGA TEMMINCKI, Leisler. 
[Brockholes states that he shot an example of this 
rare Stint on the Dee Marsh, near Shotwick, on August 
25th, 1862. At the same time, he saw another bird which 
he did not secure.| 
CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
TRINGA SUBARQUATA (Giildenstidt). 
Although much rarer than on the east coast of 
England, the Curlew Sandpiper occurs in small numbers 
upon our shores in autumn. Brockholes says that it 
is not uncommon at that season, when it consorts with 
Dunlins;! and Dr. Dobie has occasionally seen examples 
in the Chester shops in strings of Dunlins from the 
Dee Marshes.” Mr. R. Newstead has frequently met 
with the bird in the Mersey Estuary. Dr. Dobie states, 
on the authority of Mr. W. Bell, that a Curlew Sand- 
piper was shot at New Brighton in January 1891], a 
remarkably late date.” 
Inland, the Curlew Sandpiper has been reported trom 
Tushingham, near Malpas, where after stormy weather 
a pair were observed by the side of a pool on October 
14th, 1875.° 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 12. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 337. 
3D. Vawdrey, Field, vol. xlvi. p. 504. 1875. 
