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TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



TEMMINCK' s SANDPIPER. TEMMINCK' s 



LITTLE SANDPIPER. 



Trlnga Temminckii, - J SELBY. 



" jotmV/a, FLEMING. 



" puciUa, MONTAGU. 



Trlnga ? Temminckii Of Temminck. 



THIS is the smallest of our British Sandpipers. It has 

 "been named after M. Temminck, the celebrated naturalist, who 

 was the first to distinguish it from the other. 



It is said to have its young in the north of Europe, and 

 is seen during its passages in Italy, Switzerland, France, 

 Germany, and Holland. It also visits North Africa; and in 

 Asia it belongs to Siberia, the northern provinces of Asiatic 

 Russia, India, Himalaya, and the Dukkun, Timor, and other 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago. 



Specimens have been obtained in Cornwall, at Swanpool 

 and East Looe; Devonshire; Middlesex, near Kingsbury; 

 Cambridgeshire, on Poulmire Moor; Norfolk; Yorkshire; 

 Cumberland, at Rockcliff Salt Marsh; and Essex. 



William Richard Fisher, Esq., of Yarmouth, has written 

 me word that he possesses two specimens of this bird killed 

 at Great Yarmouth, the one in the month of May, and the 

 other he believes in September; and that he knew of four, 

 in all, shot in September and October, 1843; other two, a 

 male and female, were shot in the same county in May, 

 1830: it seems to occur there not very rarely. In Cornwall 

 it appears to be by no means uncommon in the salt marshes 

 about Penzance and Marazion a flock of at least a dozen 

 was seen in the middle of August, 1853. In Suffolk two 

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