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116. PISOBIA TEMMINCKI (Leisler). m 



TEMMINCK'S STINT. 



Tringa temminckii Leisler, in Bechst. Naturg. Deutsclil. (1812), 2, 78. 

 Limonites temmineki Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 555; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 53; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 28. 



Negl-os (^teere Exp.). Northern Europe and Asia, northern and northeastern 

 Africa; in winter Indian Peninsula and China. 



"Adult in winter plumage. — Above ashy gray, slightly yaried ^vith 

 (hiskv shaft-streaks; scapulars bronzy bro\vii like inner secondaries; lower 

 back and ninip brown, with a subterminal shade of darker brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts also dark brown, with longitudinal shaft-streaks of darker 

 brown; wing-coverts browii, with a slight l)ronzy gloss, shaft-lines darker, 

 and slight indications of paler edges; greater coverts tipped with white, 

 fomiing a cross-band on the wing; alula, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish brown; shafts of the primaries pale wliity brown, that of the 

 first outer primary white: alula white with a brown center; all the 

 primaries white at the extreme base ; secondaries brown, white at base of 

 inner web, and fringed with white at the ends; long inner secondaries 

 l)ronzy brown with dusky centers: middle tail-feathers dusky brown, the 

 remainder ashy brown, with white in the center, increasing in extent 

 toward outer feathers, two external ones entirely white; crown ashy 

 brown like back ; lores dull brown surmounted by a streak of white, hardly 

 joined to a second streak above the ear-coverts, which forms an indistinct 

 eyebrow ; eyelid white ; sides of face and ear-coverts ashy brown, streaked 

 with dusky brown ; cheeks and throat white, with a few dusky streaks on 

 cheeks and lower throat; fore neck and upper breast light ashy brown; 

 lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, and flanks pure white; thighs brown, 

 white internally: under tail-coverts wliite: under wing-coverts and axillars 

 white; coverts round- the bend of wing dusky l)rown with whitisii edges; 

 lower primary-coverts brown, forming a patch: quills below ashy brown, 

 somewhat lighter along the inner edge. Length, 140; culmen, 15; wing, 

 iJti; tail, 4G; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 18. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. — Only difl:'ers from the winter 

 plumage in being more nu)ttled atwve, the feathers having black centers, 

 and being tinged with rufous, especially on the edges of the feathers; 

 lower throat and chest have some distinct shaft-lines. 'Bill olive-black, 

 lighter olive brownish at base, especially on lower mandible: feet olive- 

 yellow, joints more dusky ; iris dark brown.' (Stejneger.) Length, i:?") ; 

 culmen, 19; wing, 94; tail, 4(5; tarsus, IG ; middle toe witii daw, 18. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. — Similar to the male, and ap- 

 I)arently quite as much mottled. Length, V,i2; culmen, 20; wing, 99; 

 tail, 47; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 18. 



