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lakes at a distance from the coast, like our Common Sand- 

 piper, T. hypoleucos, but is sometimes found on the sandy 

 or muddy creeks and shores of the sea. 



Although not distinguished by Montagu from his Little 

 Sandpiper, the description given in the Appendix to the 

 Ornithological Dictionary leaves no doubt that he had a 

 specimen 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. 

 Colonel Montagu's example of this species was killed in 

 Devonshire, and others have been obtained in the same 

 county since. I have seen specimens from the neighbour- 

 hood 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 1 839, on the margin of Kingsbury Reservoir 

 in Middlesex, and several young ones in the autumn of the 

 same year, obtaining one of the old ones and five young 

 ones. The Rev. Leonard Jenyns sent me notice of one 

 killed in Cambridgeshire on Foulmire Moor, by Mr. Baker, 

 of Melbourne. Several 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 oc- 

 curring in Rock-cliff salt marsh. Its food is small insects 

 and worms. 



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

 Northern Europe, but the eggs of this bird, and its habits 

 at the breeding-ground, have been very lately made known 

 in the third edition of Mr. Hewitson's work on the Eggs 

 of our British Birds, by an interesting communication from 



