74 

 ORALLATORES. 



scoLOPAcnm 



SCOLOPACID^. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa Temminckii. 



Tringa pucilla, Little Sandpiper, 



to 



MONTAGU, Appendix 



Ornith. Diet. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 112. 

 ,, Temminckii, Temmincks Tringa, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 144. 



Stint, JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 211. 



Sandpiper, EYTON,Rarer Brit. Birds, p.44. 



Tringa, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becasseau Temmia, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 622. 



THIS diminutive Stint, named after M. Temminck, is 

 still smaller in size than the Little Stint last described, and 

 is the smallest of the British Sandpipers ; it is also much 

 more rare than the Little Stint, and somewhat different in 

 its habits, frequenting the borders of rivers and fresh-water 



