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spring ; but on the 26th of March, 1838, a flock of five was 

 observed. 



In Dublin Bay, this bird has occasionally been met with. 

 About the 1st of November, 1831, Mr. T. W. Warren killed at 

 one shot, at the sandy tract called the North Bull, three stints, 

 along with sanderlings, ring dotterels, and dunlins. One, ac- 

 cording to Mr. W. S. Wall (bird-preserver), was killed in Sep- 

 tember 1836; and in that month of the following year (1837) 

 he saw five or six stints in company with some of the last-named 

 species on the North Bull : they were very wild, and kept up with 

 their congeners in flight : their peculiar call was remarked as new 

 to my informant. The stint is said to have been killed on the 

 Dublin coast in the autumn of 1846; and one was obtained 

 there, near Baldoyle, in November 1847.* Mr. B. Chute has 

 twice procured this species near Tralee ; three from a flock of five 

 at the end of September, and two in the winter season (1840- 

 1841). 



In England this bird has been observed chiefly on the eastern 

 and southern coasts in very limited numbers, and more particularly 

 during its autumnal migration. On the western coast, the Sol way 

 is noticed in Mr. YarrelFs work, on the authority of Dr. Hey- 

 sham, as a place of its occurrence, in which tins gentleman had 

 seen it on both sides of the Frith. Lancashire is the only other 

 locality on that coast of the island noticed in the work referred 

 to. Sir Wm. Jardine and Mr. Macgillivray had not at the date 

 of their respective works met with the stint in Scotland. A single 

 specimen is recorded in the ' Historia Naturalis Orcadensis' (pub- 

 lished in 1848), as having been killed at Sanday in October 

 1837. 



The Dublin University Museum contains a specimen of T. 

 minuta stated to have been obtained at Sierra Leone. 



Mr. E. J. Montgomery. 



