TEMMINCK’S STINT. BL 
the wings underneath are ash grey. Greater wing coverts, 
nearly uniform grey, or dusky olive brown, with narrow 
lighter-coloured margins in winter, and white tips, forming a 
bar across the wing; lesser wing coverts, dusky with paler 
edges; primaries, deep dusky brown tinged with olive green, 
the shafts white, that of the first whiter than those of the 
others; secondaries, dusky tipped with white; tertiaries, dusky 
brown. The tail, wedge-shaped, the two central feathers 
being the longest, and also the darkest in colour and pointed, 
nearly black, with, in summer, reddish brown, and in winter 
grey, edges; the next one on each side grey brown, the next 
grey, and the three outer ones white tinged with light ash 
grey on the outer webs; the outermost feather on each side 
the shortest. Upper tail coverts, dusky brown, those next 
the tail almost black; under tail coverts, white. Legs and 
toes, olivaceous greenish brown or grey. 
The young of the year have the bill not so black as in 
the mature bird; iris, dark brown; over the eye a streak of 
white with specks of ash grey. Forehead, white; head, 
crown, neck on the back, and nape, ash-coloured grey, the 
feathers ending in dull black, and tipped very narrowly with 
eream-coloured white; chin, throat, and breast, dull white; 
back, brown, each feather ended with dark brown and white. 
Greater and lesser wing coverts, grey brown, each feather 
ended with a semicircle of dusky black, tipped very narrowly 
with cream-coloured white; primaries, dusky black edged with 
white; secondaries, dusky black tipped with white; tertiaries, 
grey brown with dark shafts and white tips. The tail has 
the two middle feathers grey brown edged with white, the 
outer ones white; under tail coverts, dull white. Legs, paler 
than in the adult bird. 
In the ‘ad interim’ stages of plumage, those, I mean, 
assumed between the garb put on in winter and that in 
summer, alternately, there are, as may readily be supposed, a 
great variety of partial changes. 
