048 SCOLOPACID.E. 



Although not distinguished by Montagu from his Little 

 Sandpiper, the description given in the Appendix to the Or- 

 nithological Dictionary, leaves no doubt that he had a speci- 

 men of Temminck''s Stint under consideration, but these two 

 European Stints have been confounded by others. Mr. 

 Thompson has not recorded the occurrence of Temminck's 

 Stint in Ireland. Mr. Couch, in his Cornish Fauna, says 

 that two specimens were killed at Swanpool, and are now in 

 the collection of Mr. Clement Jackson at East Looe. Co- 

 lonel Montagu*'s example of this species was killed in Devon- 

 shire, and others have been obtained in the same county 

 since. I have seen specimens from the neighbourhood of 

 Chichester, and have three British examples, in different 

 states of plumage, in my own collection. Mr. Bond sent me 

 word that he met with a pair of old birds in the spring of 

 1839, on the margin of Kingsbury Reservoir in Middlesex, 

 and several young ones in the autumn of the same year, ob- 

 taining one of the old ones and five young ones. The Rev. 

 Leonard Jenyns sent me notice of one killed in Cambridge- 

 shire on Foulmire moor, by Mr. Baker, of Melbourne. Se- 

 veral have been killed in Norfolk, and some in Yorkshire, 

 one near Scarborough, another near Hull, but they are more 

 rare in the northern counties ; Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle, has 

 however, recorded them as occurring in Rock-cliff salt marsh. 



M. Nilsson says it breeds on the shores of the seas of 

 Northern Europe, but the eggs of this bird, or its habits at 

 the breeding ground, are imknown. Its food is small insects 

 and worms. 



This species is seen on its passage in spring and autumn, 

 in Germany and Holland; M. Vieillot reports the same of it 

 in France. M. Schinz, in his Fauna Helvetica, says it is 

 occasionally obtained, in spring and autumn, on the borders 

 of rivers and lakes in Switzerland. At Genoa, and in Italy, 

 it is sometimes seen in Mav, but not every vear. Mr. Gould 



