ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



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This species arrives at Bering Island late in May in rather large 

 flocks, but does not stay long. ISTone were met with during the whole 

 summer, until, in the first half of September, the}' took a short rest on 

 the shores of our island before continuing their long travel to tbe south- 

 ward. 



42. Actodromas temminckii (Leisl.). 



1787. — Tringa piisilln Latham, Snppl. Syn. B., I, p. 292 (wfc Lin.). 



1812. — Tr'trnja femminckii Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Natiirg. DeiitscbL, II (p. 63). — 

 MiDDEND., Sibir. Reise, II, 2 (p. 221). — (T. temminijU) Kittl., Denkw., 

 II, p. 196? (1858).— SciiREXCK, Reis. Aniurl., I, p. 442 (I860).— Radde, 

 Reis. Sud.Ost-Sibir., II (p. 332) (1863).— Swinh., P, Z. S., 1863, p. 317.— 

 Id., ibid., 1871, p. 409.— W., Ibis, 1860, p. 66.— M, ibid., 1861, p. 342.— M, 

 ibid., 1862, p. 255.— 7rf., ibid., 1863, p. 412,— Dybow. & Parvex, J. f. Orn., 

 1868, p. 337.— Taczan., J. f. Oru., 1873, p. 103— Id., ibid., 1874, p. 336.— M, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 254. — Id., Orn. Fauna Vost. Sibir., p. 57 

 (1877). — Actodromus t. Bonap., Cat. Parzud., p. 15 (1856). — Actodromas t. 

 Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat.Mus., 1833, p. 71. 



1826. — Tringa cinclus Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 201 (nee Lin.). 



1882. — ? Tringa damacensis Taczan, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 396 (nee HORSF.). 



My specimens agree perfectly with examples from Scandinavia and 

 India. 



List of specimens collected. 



Locality. 



Bering Island. 



do, 



do 



do 



ifay 28, 1883 

 June 3,1883 

 Oct. 15,1882 

 Aug. 9,1882 



mm. ! mm. 



91 



5 I 93 



I 93 



I 94 



w 



m^m. 

 18 

 17 

 18 

 17.5 



No. 92800.— Iris dark brown. Bill olive black, lighter olive brownish at base, especially on lower 

 mandible. Feet olive yellow, joints moro dusky. Fat. Testes very large, 10""" long; swollen. 



No. 92801.— Iris dark brown. Bill olive black, lighter below at base. Feet yellowish gray. Tip of out- 

 stretched toes reaching the end of the tail ; tips of closed wings only the end of the under tail-covei ts. 



No. 89023.— Iris blackish brown. Bill olive gray at base, blackish at tip. Feet lightgray, with a faint 

 tinge of yellow ; joints darker gniy ; nails black. Tip of outstretched toes scarcely teaching the end of 

 tail ; tips of closed wings reach the end of tail. 



Like the foregoing species, only met with on Bering Isand during the 

 migration seasons; mostly only single individuals either alone or among 

 the flocks of the foregoing two si)ecies. A young bird was shot on the 

 tundra August 9, 1882, and it may possibly have been liatched on the 

 island. At all events, Temminck's Stint is a rare bird compared with 

 tlie two others. 



