Greve, Berlin.
TEMMINCK’S STINT.
TRINGA TEMMINCKI, Leisler.
Tringa temminckii, Leisler, Nachtrâge zu Beclist. Naturg.
Deutschl. pp. 63-73 (1812) ; Naum. vii. p. 483, xiii.
p. 234 ; Macff. iv. p. 232 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 362.
Tringa temmincki, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 398 ; Dresser, viii. p. 45.
Bécasseau Temminck, French.
This little Sandpiper is an irregular and somewhat
rare visitor to Great Britain ; most of its recorded
occurrences have taken place on the autumnal migration,
but it has also been observed and frequently obtained,
especially in Norfolk, on the return passage in May.
The only fresh specimens of this bird that I have ever
handled were shot by my friend Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby in
the “ Marisma ” of the Guadalquivir in February 1882,
and I cannot say with certainty that I ever saw Tem-
minck’s Stint alive. The breeding-grounds of this
species extend, according to the 4th ed. of ‘ Yarrell,’ from
the northern districts of Norway, and over a great part
of Sweden, across Northern Russia, throughout Asiatic
Siberia to the north of the forest-growth, as far as the
shores of Bering’s Straits. On migration it ranges as
far to the southward as Ceylon and Senegambia.