TEM MI NCR’S STINT. 
TJilNGA TEMMINCKI. 
ok^riittlo'' Irr T ^ "^“‘unities for obsorvin? this 
c^ant htlle San Ipipor ; the species, however, judging the numbers oeoasionally seen is bv no 
means so rare as is generally supposed. ^ ^ 
Tliough this Stint resorts commonly to the saltwater mudflats and the banks of tidal rivers it is 
dvaders wl!:id rart^Zpa^y'tt'Ierwl^t^ 
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specimen, the birds m every instance springing une.xpoetedly while workim. tlie °nunt I was suffix's'll'* 
close o aseertaiu that all appeared to exhibit the dark dress of the breeding-season orthe IXh ff 
July, 1878, tlie diminutive size of a Wader runnino- i n i ® ^ 
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I have seldom been on Breydon mudflats during autumn without noticing several of these Stints- 
ley y, however, for the most part singly or in small parties, and are extremely likely to escape observation’ 
A few extracts from my notes for 1872 will show tlie regularity with which, at eeiin states of t i ll 
various species that frequent the flats approach their feeding-grounds. On the 2nd of Se L - id Z 
oZ l"' ", X “'X" ^ evidently in immature plZ .! s iX 
about a hundred yards lower down the run, the boat, however, had taken the ground, and th: iiX Xa 
again on w^g before a ehanee for a shot occurred. In the expectation that it Would revisit tlie si t a 
le same tune of tide on the 3rd. I was on the look-out, and the muds were no sooner exposed than it 
flew round, alighting after a couple of turns. A juvenile Hook, feeding on dead fish and other refuse by the 
nater-side, instant y made a swoop at and drove up the small stranger. This portion of the flats appearl 
possess some strange attraction for tlie species, as, after a short flight, the bird again approach” and 
