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TEMMINCK^S STINT. 
Tringa TemmincJcii, Leisler. 
Has been once obtained. 
A LETTER from Eicliard Chute, Esq., of Blennerville, Tralee, 
dated Eebruarj, 1848, informed me that in the first week of 
that month he had procured a specimen of this bird, killed at 
the end of January, during severe frost. It was shot by W, 
Purdon, Esq., at a fresh-water pool close to the town of Tralee, 
and the one bird only was seen. The form of the tail, its colour, 
with that of the tarsi and plumage generally, corresponded with 
Yarrell^s description, though slightly darker in hue : the bird 
was rather smaller than the individual from which that description 
was drawn up. Mr. Chute saw three of the nearly allied Tringa 
minuta (of which he shot two), a few years previously in a small 
marsh near the sea-shore in the same part of Kerry. 
Tliis is the only T, Temminckii I have heard of being procured 
in Ireland.* 
This bird is extremely rare in England, much more so than the ' 
T. minuta j and is unknown in Scotland. It breeds in Scandinavia. 
THE BUEE-BEEASTED SANDPIPEE. 
Tringa rufescens^ Yieillot. 
Is said to have been once procured in Ireland. 
According to Mr. E. M^Coy, one shot by J. Hill, Esq., near 
the Pigeon- house, Dublin [bay], is preserved in the museum of 
the Natural History Society of that city.f When the bird was 
killed is not stated. It is said to be in the same plumage as that 
described by Mr. Yarrell : — i. e., a young bird of the year. 
* Sir Wm. Jardine, tkrougli inadvertence, mentioned the occurrence of the species 
in Ireland, as on my authority, in the third volume of his ‘ British Birds,’ published 
in 1842. 
t ‘Annals Nat. Hist.,’ vol. xv. p. 271 (1845). 
