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British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. 



Little Stint they are little over A). The legs and feet are also grey-brown in 

 colour, tinged with green at the joints, instead of black. The American Stint is 

 a shade smaller in size and darker in the plumage of the upper parts, and, in 

 summer dress, less rufous above. 



Favnly—SCOL OP A CID^. 



Temminck's Stint. 



Triiiga temmincki, LEISLER. 



TEMMIXCK'S STINT breeds abundantly in Northern Norway and Sweden, 

 and the Little Stint only in very small numbers. It might, therefore, have 

 been expected that on migration the former would be tolerabh- abundant with us, 

 the latter rare ; the actual case is the exact reverse of this. As well as in Sweden 

 and Norway, Temminck's Stint breeds in North Russia down to 65'-' N., and 

 Northern Asia as far as the Yenesei. Eastward of this, precise information is 

 wanting, but the bird is found in small numbers on the China coasts in winter, 

 also in the Iklalay Archipelago, Burmah, India, Ceylon, the Mediterranean Basin 

 (especially the eastern half), and North Africa, down to 10° N. on both sides of 

 the continent. It has not been recorded from Iceland nor Japan. With us, it 

 occurs more commonly in autumn than in spring, and chiefly on the east side; 

 north of the Wash it is decidedly scarce, but from Norfolk to the Isle of Wight 

 it is not uncommon, and goes as far west as the Scilly Islands. As well as on 

 the coasts, it has occurred a good many times inland, by lakes, reservoirs, etc. 



Description of adult in summer {$ $ $ ^ 2 ^, Northern Norway, Russian Lap- 

 land, and Kolguiev) : bill black, \vith a slight green tinge ; iris umber ; upper 

 parts brownish-grey ; the feathers of the crown, shoulders, and back, have dark 

 centres, quite black on some of the scapulars, whilst others have no dark centres 

 at all, giving the back a "patchy" look; gre^'-brown margins to the back feathers, 



