302 SCOLOPACID^E. 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa Temminckii, Leisler. 



Has beeu once obtained. 



A letter from Richard Chute, Esq., of Blennerville, Tralee, 

 dated February, 1848, informed me that in the first week of 

 that month he had procured a specimen of this bird, killed at 

 the end of January, during severe frost. It was shot by W. 

 Purdon, Esq., at a fresh-water pool close to the town of Tralee, 

 and the one bird only was seen. The form of the tail, its colour, 

 with that of the tarsi and plumage generally, corresponded with 

 Yarrell's description, though slightly darker in hue : the bud 

 was rather smaller than the individual from which that description 

 was drawn up. Mr. Chute saw three of the nearly allied Tringa 

 minuta (of which he shot two), a few years previously in a small 

 marsh near the sea-shore in the same part of Kerry. 



Tins is the only T. Temminckii I have heard of being procured 

 in Ireland.* 



This bird is extremely rare in England, much more so than the 

 T. minuta, and is unknown in Scotland. It breeds in Scandinavia. 



THE BUEE-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa rufescens, Vieillot. 



Is said to have been once procured in Ireland. 



According to Mr. E. M'Coy, one " shot by J. Hill, Esq., near 

 the Pigeon-house, Dublin [bay], is preserved in the museum of 

 the Natural History Society " of that city.f When the bird was 

 killed is not stated. It is said to be in the same plumage as that 

 described by Mr. Yarrell : — i. e., a young bird of the year. 



* Sir Win. Jardine, through inadvertence, mentioned the occurrence of the species 

 in Ireland, as on my authority, in the third volume of his ' British Birds,' published 

 in 1842. 



t 'Annals Nat. Hist.,' vol. xv. p. 271 (1845). 



