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Family CHAEADEIID^. Genus Limonites. 



Subfamily SCOLOPAGINJE, 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



LIMONITES TEMMINCKI— (Lmfer). 



Tringa temminckii, Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. ii. p. 78 (1812) ; 

 Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 230 (1852) ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 45, pi. 549, fig. 1 ; 

 pi. 555, fig. 2 (1871) ; Yarrell, Brit. B. ed. 4, iii. p. 398 (1883) ; Seebohm, Hist. 

 Brit. B. iii. p. 217 (1885) ; Dixon, Nests and Eggs Non-indig. Brit. B. p. 272 

 (1894) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. pt. xxxi. (1895) ; Seebohm, Col. Eig. Eggs Brit. 

 B. p. 149, pi. 44 (1896). 



Limonites temmincl<i (Leisler), Sharpe, Handb. B. Gt. Brit. iii. p. 257 (1896) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 565 (1896j. 



Geographical distribution.— Brii^isA.- Temminck's stint is a rare 

 but regular visitor to our Islands on spring and autumn migration ; most frequent 

 on the east and south coasts of England from the Humber to the Scilly Isles, 

 and especially so in Norfolk. North of the Humber it is rare, and has once only or 

 twice been recorded from Scotland. It is very rare on the west coast of England ; 

 whilst one example only has been recorded from Ireland, and this in January, the 

 sole known instance of this species being found in our Islands during winter. 

 It occasionally wanders inland — Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, Notts, and Lanca- 

 shire. Foreign : Northern Palaearctic region ; Oriental region in winter. It 

 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 suit- 

 able localities on river banks as far south as lat. 66° 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 the evidence is unsatisfactory, 

 although the record of a male bird obtained on the 26th of May from Tagdum- 

 bash Pamir, at an elevation of 14,000 feet, is very suggestive. It passes the 

 European coasts, and along internal routes both of Europe and Asia, and the 

 coasts of China (accidentally in Japan), on migration, and winters in the basin of 

 the Mediterranean, in Northern Africa, and on both eastern and western coasts 

 as far south as lat. 10°, India, Ceylon, Burmah, South China, and the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Allied forms. — None nearer than the Stints already dealt with, and to 

 which it is only distantly related. 

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