CHARADRIIDA. 535 
THE LITTLE STINT. 
TRINGA MINUTA, Leisler. 
The Little Stint arrives on the east side of England every autumn, 
and again on the passage northward in spring. Its numbers on the 
mud-flats of Norfolk are sometimes considerable, but on the 
whole the British Islands appear to lie on the outskirts of the 
chief line of flight pursued by this somewhat eastern species. On 
the south coast this Stint is not very common, while westward its 
occurrences are decidedly irregular, the sandy flats of Lancashire 
and of the Solway district being the localities it most affects. In 
Scotland, it occurs every autumn on the east coast as far north as 
Aberdeenshire ; while it has recently been observed in considerable 
numbers on the Moray Firth as well as in the Orkneys, and Saxby 
met with it in the Shetlands ; but on the west side it is decidedly 
rare. According to A. G. More, it is found every autumn in Ireland, 
chiefly along the north-east shore, but is nowhere plentiful. 
On its autumnal migration this species visits the greater part of 
Europe, and, except on the west coast of France, it is almost as abun-. 
dant on the spring-passage. It does not appearto winter in any numbers. 
on the northern side of the Mediterranean, though many individuals 
remain in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt; but the majority 
make for the extreme south of Africa, the Seychelles, and Arabia, 
crossing the great ranges of Asia on their way to the Indian region. 
The breeding-grounds of the Little Stint were first discovered by 
Middendorff in 1843, as far east as the Taimyr river, Siberia, in lat. 
