Wolley, who first made known the breeding-habits and 

 eggs of this species, found it sparsely in several 

 locaUties north of the Bothnian Gulf, and tells us that 

 it generally nests upon grassy banks, and pastures by 

 the waterside, and seems to delight in the neighbour- 

 hood of houses ; he remarks upon its extraordinary 

 tameness, and alludes to its constant trilling note 

 uttered both when on wing, and from its standing 

 place, and says that this note shghtly resembles that of 

 the Grasshopper Warbler. The nest is a simple 

 arrangement of a few short bits of hay in a little saucer- 

 shaped hollow, generally not far from the water's edge, 

 but sometimes in the middle of a meadow. The eggs 

 in 1854 were laid about midsummer day. I quote the 

 above details from Hewitson's ' Eggs of British Birds,' 

 3rd ed. vol. ii. p. 362. Col. Irby found Temminck's 

 Stint commonly in small parties during the winter, in 

 the neighbourhood of Gibraltar, and says that a very 

 favourite locality for these birds was the abandoned or 

 unused salt-pans near Pulmones. He did not observe 

 any in those parts later than the month of March. 



