BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 397 
Mr. R. Service, in his paper on "The Waders of 
Solway," says : "There is one certain occurrence in 
a bird I saw at Hastings' (the bird-stuffer) shop about 
thirty years ago [i.e., circa 1875] and Hastings told 
me he had had another long previously."* Mr. R. Service 
assures me that both these birds were obtained in Dumfries- 
shire. 
Mr. Abel Chapman, comparing the status of Temminck's 
Stint on the north-east, with the west coast of England; 
states : " On the west they appear slightly less irregular, their 
passage on the Solway taking place during the first week of 
September."! Writing in 1892, H. A. Macpherson says : 
" considering that this Stint nests on the Norwegian fells, 
fide CoUett, it is a little surprising that not a single specimen 
has strayed to the marshes of the English Solway during the 
last half-century."{ Mr. L. E. Hope writes me from 
Carlisle in 1909, that during the last fifteen years he has 
handled some twenty-five specimens of the Little Stint, 
but never one of this species. In view of the above^ 
and the fact that no specimen of this species is known 
to have been obtamed in the Solway area since about 
1875, it is difficult to accept Mr. Abel Chapman's 
statement. 
Temminck's Stuat is a more irregular visitor to Great 
Britain on its autumn and spring-migrations than the 
preceding, having occurred most frequently on the southern 
and south-eastern coasts of England. It breeds commonly 
in Scandinavia as far south as Trondhjem and eastwards 
across European and Asiatic Russia beyond the limit of 
tree-growth. Its migrations extend to the Indo-Malayan 
region, China, and both sides of Africa as far south as lat. 
10° north ; some, however, winter in the Mediterranean 
basm ; while on passage it visits in Europe many of the 
shores and inland waters. 
* Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., 1905, Vol. VIII., p. 53. 
t Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907, p. 403. 
t Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, p. 384. 
