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TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



TRINGA TEMMINCKL Leisler. 



Tringa temminckii, Leisler, Naclitrage zu Bechst. Naturg. 



DeutscU. pp. 63-73 (1812) ; Naum. vii. p. 483, xiii. 



p. 234 ; Macy. iv. p. 232 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 362. 

 Tringa temmincki, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 398 ; Dresser, viii. p. 45. 



Becasseau Temminck, French. 



This little Sandpiper is an irregular and somewhat 

 rare visitor to Great Britain ; most of its recorded 

 occurrences have taken place on the autumnal migration, 

 but it has also been observed and frequently obtained, 

 especially in Norfolk, on the return passage in May. 

 The only fresh specimens of this bird that I have ever 

 handled were shot by my friend Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby in 

 the " Marisma " of the Guadalquivir in February 1882, 

 and I cannot say with certainty that I ever saw Tem- 

 minck's Stint alive. The breeding-grounds of this 

 species extend, according to the 4th ed. of ' Yarrell,' from 

 the northern districts of Norway, and over a great part 

 of Sweden, across Northern Eussia, throughout Asiatic 

 Siberia to the north of the forest-growth, as far as the 

 shores of Bering's Straits. On migration it ranges as 

 far to the southward as Ceylon and Senegambia. 



