220 PURPLE SANDPIPER 
The Little Stint is most numerous on the eastern coasts 
of Britain, being much rarer and more local in the west 
and in Ireland. It seems not to be recorded at all for the 
Outer Hebrides. 
TRINGA SUBARQUATA (Giildenstiidt). 
CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
Mr. Kermode has an example in the Ramsey Museum, 
which was picked up dead on the shore at Douglas in 
August 1881. He says that the Curlew Sandpiper has 
been taken at Sulby by Mr. E. Thellusson, and has ‘ heard 
of one or two other instances.’ Mr. Baily shot two speci- 
mens while feeding with Dunlins on the sands below 
King William’s College. This was probably in the spring 
of 1888. 
In Ireland this species is most frequent on the east, and 
has been noted chiefly in the bays of Dublin and Belfast. 
It is a straggler in Galloway, and a scarce migrant (chiefly 
in autumn) in north-western England. It visits Shetland 
regularly. It is most abundant on the eastern coasts of 
Great Britain. 
TRINGA STRIATA, Linn. PURPLE 
SANDPIPER. 
This species has been noted in various localities all 
round the island. It is nowhere abundant, and its habits 
are such as to bring it under the notice of a close observer 
only. 
