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spring ; but on the 26th of March, 1838, a flock of flve was 
observed. 
In Dublin Bay, this bird has occasionally been met with. 
About the 1st of November, 1831, Mr. T. W. Warren kiUed at 
one shot, at the sandy tract called the North BuU, three stints, 
along with sanderlings, ring dotterels, and dunlins. One, ac- 
cording to Mr. W. S. Wall (bird-preserver), was kiUed in Sep- 
tember 1836; and in that month of the following year (1837) 
he saw five or six stints in company with some of the last-named 
species on the North Bull : they were very wild, and kept up with 
their congeners in flight : their peculiar call was remarked as new 
to my informant. The stint is said to have been killed on the 
Dublin coast in the autumn of 1816; and one was obtained" 
there, near Baldoyle, in November 1847.* Mr. R. Chute has 
twice procured this species near Tralee ; three from a flock of five 
at the end of September, and two in the winter season (1840- 
1841). 
In England this bird has been observed chiefly on the eastern 
and southern coasts in very limited numbers, and more particularly 
during its autumnal migration. On the w^estern coast, the Solway 
is noticed in Mr. Yarrelks work, on the authority of Dr. Hey- 
sham, as a place of its occurrence, in which this gentleman had 
seen it on both sides of the Erith. Lancashire is the only other 
locality on that coast of the island noticed in the work referred 
to. Sir Win. Jardine and Mr. Macgillivray had not at the date 
of their respective works met with the stint in Scotland. A single 
specimen is recorded in the ^ Historia Naturalis Orcadensis’ (pub- 
lished in 1848), as having been kiUed at Sanday in October 
1837. 
The Dublin University Museum contains a specimen of T, 
minuta stated to have been obtained at Sierra Leone. 
* Mr. R, J. Montgomery. 
