Family CHARADRIID^. Genus Tringa. 



Subfamily Scolopacin^. 



TEMMINCE'S STINT. 



TRINGA TEMMINCKI— Zm/«^. 



Geographical Distribution.— ^«Vw/z .• Rare but regular 

 visitor on spring and autumn migration ; most frequent on the 

 east and south coasts of England from the Humber to the Scilly 

 Isles, especially in Norfolk. North of the Humber it is rare, and 

 has only once been recorded from Scotland. Very rare on the 

 west coast of England ; only one example recorded from Ireland, 

 and this in January, the sole known instance of this species being 

 found in our islands during winter. Occasionally wanders 

 inland : Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, Notts, and Lancashire. 

 Foreign : Northern Palaearctic region ; Oriental region in winter. 

 Breeds on the tundras above the limits of forest growth, from 

 Scandinavia in North-western Europe to the Tchuski Land in 

 North-eastern Asia, and in suitable localities on river banks as far 

 south as lat. 65° on the White Sea and Bothnian Gulf, and lat. 

 55° on the coasts of the Okhotsk Sea. It has been said to breed 

 on the lofty Siberian Mountains, but on unsatisfactory evidence. 

 It passes the European coasts, along internal fly-lines both of 

 Europe and Asia, and the coasts of China, on migration, and 

 winters in the basin of the Mediterranean, Northern Africa, and 

 both eastern and western coasts, as far south as lat. 10°, India, 

 Ceylon, Burma, South China, and the Malay Archipelago. 



Allied Forms. — None nearer than the Stints already dealt 

 with, and with which it is only distantly related. 



Time during which Temminck's Stint may be taken. 

 — August ist to March ist. 



