396 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Scottish and English sides of the Solway Firth."* In 1901 
the same authority states that every autumn a few odd 
birds are to be found along the shores from Annan to Gretna, 
any time between August and January, but chiefly in Sep- 
tember.! In September, 1903, a pair were seen on the 
Blackshaw at the mouth of the Lochar.J In 1905 a remark- 
able visitation took place in September, and Little Stints 
were seen by many observers between Cummertrees and 
Gretna. Probably the species passes undetected in many 
seasons, its stay on the shore being of but a few days' 
duration, and its habits and plumage unobtrusive. It will 
be seen that the appearance of the Little Stint has usually 
been in September, but Mr. W. Murray informs me that his 
keeper, J. Murray, asserts that he saw a pair of these birds 
on the River Annan in March, 1906, and that a specimen 
was shot also in that month on the coast near Cummertrees 
about 1898, and sent to Carlisle. 
The Little Stint, on its autumnal migration, visits the 
greater part of Europe, and with the exception of western 
France, is as widely distributed on its return passage in 
spring. Its chief winter-quarters are in the extreme south 
of Africa, Arabia and India ; though many sojourn during 
the cold months on the southern shore of the Mediterranean. 
Its breeding-quarters are on the tundras of northern Europe 
and western Siberia from the Porsanger Fjord to the Yenesei. 
TEMMINCK'S STINT. Tringa temmincki, Leisler. 
A very rare visitor to the Solway shore. 
Sir William Jardine in 1842 writes of Temminck's Stint: 
" We have not met with Scotch specimens. "§ 
* Zoologist, 1894, p. 115. 
t Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 49. 
X Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., 1905, Vol. VIII., p. 53. 
§ Nat. Lib., 1842, Vol. XII., p. 245. 
