CHARADRIID. 589 
TEMMINCK’S STINT. 
TRINGA TEMM{NCKI, Leisler. 
Though less rare on migration than was formerly supposed, this 
species is more irregular than the Little Stint in its visits to Great 
Britain, notwithstanding that the western limit of its breeding- 
grounds are at no great distance from our northern shores. There 
are, however, only two or three trustworthy records of its occurrence 
in the east of Scotland (Aberdeenshire); while merely a few 
examples, at long intervals, have been obtained on the east coast of 
England between Northumberland and the south of Lincolnshire, in 
autumn, In Norfolk a good many have been met with at that season 
—-one as late as November 23rd—while about ten have been procured 
on the return passage in May. Southward this species can be traced 
along the rest of the eastern sea-board, and on the Channel to Corn- 
wall and the Scilly Islands; it has also been found inland, as at 
Kingsbury Reservoir in Middlesex, Foulmire in Cambridgeshire, 
Mansfield Reservoir in Nottinghamshire, Ribbleton Moor in Lanca- 
shire &c. On the west side it is very rare, and since 1832 only six 
examples have been authenticated between the Solway district and 
the estuary of the Dee, while there is no record from Pembrokeshire, 
According to Thompson a specimen was procured near Tralee in 
