70 



GRALLA TORES. 



SCOLOrACID/E. 



SCOLOPACIDM. 



; \&<& 



TEMMINC1TS STINT. 



Tringa Temminckii. 



Tringa pucilla. Little Sandpiper, MONTAGU, Appendix to Ornith. Diet. 

 pusilla, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 112. 



Temminckii, Temminck's Tringa, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 144. 

 ,, Stint, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 211. 



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



Tringa, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



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 

 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. 



