218 CHAEADEIID^. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. It 

 has been obtained four times : — Cornwall, Oct. 1853 and 

 Sept. 1890 ; Devonshire, Sept. 1869 and August 1892. 



General Distribution. — The American Stint breeds in Arctic 

 North America from Alaska eastwards to Labrador and south- 

 wards to Nova Scotia. In winter it visits the Bermuda 

 Islands, southern United States, West Indies, Mexico, Central 

 and South America, south to Brazil, Chile, and the Galapagos 

 Islands. On migration it occurs in Greenland and east 

 Siberia. In eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, the Commander 

 Islands, and Kurile Islands, the representative species is 

 T. damacensis, which winters in Japan, China, Burma, and 

 the Malay Peninsula to Australia. 



Tringa temmincki. Temjunck's Stint. 



Tringa temminckii Leisler, Nachtriige zu Bechst. 

 Naturg. Deutschl. 1812, p. 78 : near Hauau, Germany. 



Tringa temmincki Leisl. ; B. O. JJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 169 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 589. 

 Limonites temmincki Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 555. 



Temmincki, in honour of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), Keeper of 

 the Leyden Museum. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Bird of Passage, 

 occurring irregularly in autumn and occasionally in spring, 

 most frequently on the south-east and south coasts of England 

 from Norfolk to the Scilly Islands, and wandering northwards 

 up the east coast to the Shetland Islands ; also to Ireland. 



General Distribution. — Temminck's Stint breeds in Arctic 

 Europe and Asia from northern Norway to eastern Siberia. 

 In winter it visits the Mediterranean basin and north Africa, 

 ranging on the west to Senegambia and on the east to 

 the Gulf of Aden, India, Ceylon, the Burmese countries, and 

 China. 



