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light-coloured legs ; wliile the Little Stint, like a 

 miniature Dunlin, displays a more mottled and varied 

 plumage, and has black legs. Nor need the parallel, 

 I think, be confined to the plumage only, for, as far 

 as my experience goes, Temminck's Stint, like the 

 Common Sandpiper, affects the soft mud around in- 

 land pools and marshes, while the Little Stint, like 

 the Dunlin, prefers the sand and shingle of the sea- 

 shore. The most essential differences between these 

 two species may, perhaps, be best shown as follows : — 



Temminck's Stint. 



Colour, more UDiform. 



Tarsus, light brown, short and 

 slender. 



Wings, first quill-feather with 

 white shaft ; all the other 

 quill-feathers with dusky 

 shafts. 



Tertial-feathers reach to very 

 near the end of the pri- 

 maries. 



Tail, three outer feathers on 

 each side almost white ; * 

 the first outside white, 

 with a faint dusky spot on 

 outer web ; the second 

 white, with a narrow dusky 

 streak on outer web ; the 

 third white, with broad 

 dusky streak on outer web. 



Little Stint. 

 Colour, more varied. 

 Tarsus, black, longer and 



stouter. 

 Wings, all the quill -feathers 



with white shafts. 



Tertial-feathers do not reach 

 within a quarter of an inch 

 of end of primaries. 



Tail, three outer feathers on 

 each side all pale grey ; no 

 white. 



* In India this bird is called the Whitetailed Stint. 



