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skinned rarely contained more than a little grit. In one case 

 the birds had fed on some small white worms. Another had 

 dieted on flies. The flight of this Stint is fast and irregular, 

 the bird often rising and falling. Its call-note, 'wick,' bears 

 some resemblance to that of the Sanderling, but is quite unlike 

 the trill of the Dunlin. ■ 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa temminelei, Leisl. 



T. C. Heysham records that f a pair of this rare species of 

 Sandpiper were killed on Eockliffe salt marsh on the 1st of 

 September [1832], the only specimens that we have hitherto 

 heard of that have been got in this vicinity. Both were young 

 birds, in all probability not more than nine or ten weeks old, 

 and their plumage was in almost every respect very similar to 

 the young of the Common Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucos) of the 

 same age. They proved, upon dissection, to be of different 

 sexes, and were exceedingly fat.' Mr. Charles Murray Adamson 

 showed to us the specimens obtained by James Cooper, regarding 

 which he has observed : ' In answer to my inquiries about this 

 species, Cooper of Carlisle wrote to me in 1839 : "I never saw 

 an old Temminck's Sandpiper ; the only young I ever saw were 

 three, two of which I killed on September 1st, 1832, and one 

 on the 5th of the same month and year, besides the one I sent 

 you."' 1 The last-named was shot by Cooper on Eockliffe 

 marsh on September 2d, 1839. Considering that this Stint 

 nests on the Norwegian fells, fide Collett, it is a little surprising 

 that not a single specimen has strayed to the marshes of the 

 English Solway during the last half-century. 



CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa subarquata (Giild.). 



Always one of our scarcest periodical visitants, of late years 

 the Curlew Sandpiper has been very scantily represented on the 

 Solway Firth. It is possible that this small Wader may have 

 1 More Scraps about Birds, 'p. 130. 



