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TRINGA TEMMINCKII. TEMMINCK'S 

 SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Tcmminckii. Loisler. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 622. 



Tringa pusilla. Flem. Brit. Anim. 112? 



Tringa Tcmminckii. Temminck's Tringa. Gould, Birds of Eur. pt. XVII. 



Temminck's Stint. Tarr. Brit. Birds, II. 647. 



Tringa Temminckii. Selby, Illustr. II. 144. 



Pelidna Tcmmincki. Bonap. Comp. List, 50. 



BiU a little shorter than the head, slender, scarcely en- 

 larged, but a little decurved at the end ; tail feathers graduated ; 

 larxti* eight-twelfths long; hill dusky, feet greenish-broum. 

 Plumage in winter deep brown above, each feather with a 

 blackish-broivn central space ; fore part of the neck and a 

 portion of the breast reddish- grey ; throat and lower parts 

 white; lateral tail-coverts white; outer tail-feathers exter- 

 nally white. In summer the feathers of the upper parts deep 

 black, margined with red; fore part of the neck reddish-grey, 

 finely streaked with black ; throat and, lower parts white, as 

 arc the lateral tail-feathers. 



Tins species, the most diminutive of those which occur 

 in Britain, is distinguishable from the last, not so much by 

 its smaller size as by its somewhat wedge-shaped tail and 

 much shorter tarsus. 



Adult in Winter. — The form and' proportions as in the 

 other small species. The bill somewhat shorter than the 

 head, straight, slender, rather higher than broad at the base, 

 tapering, scarcely enlarged at the end ; both mandibles late- 

 rally grooved nearly in their whole length. Nostrils linear, 

 a twelfth long ; eyes small. Legs very slender ; the tibia 

 bare for four-twelfths of an inch ; the tarsus eight-twelfths 



