252 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



Tn?ifer plumage. — Upper parts hair-brown, the centre of 

 the feathers darker ; tail-coverts dark brown, with narrow 

 pale edges ; tail, two centre feathers dark brown, the re- 

 mainder pale stone-grey ; wings dark brown, the coverts with 

 pale edges, the greater ones tipped with white, forming a 

 narrow bar on the wing; forehead and nnderparts pure 

 white ; beak and legs olive-black ; irides dark brown. 



Summer plumage. — Upper parts mottled with rufous and 

 black. 



Entire length 5"5 inches; culmen 0'7 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3'8 ; tarsus 0'8. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part vii. 



255. Tringa Temminckii, Leisler. Tcmminclcs SH/if. 



This Stint ranges throughout Egypt and Nubia, but is not 

 so plentiful as the last species, being usually met with singly 

 or in pairs. 



Upper parts dusky olive, with narrow dark streaks on the 

 centres of the feathers ; wings dusky black, coverts with pale 

 edges, the greater ones tipped with white, forming a narrow 

 bar on the wing ; underparts white, strongly shaded on the 

 lower part of the neck and crop with dusky ; legs and beak 

 olive-black ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 5*5 inches; culmen 0'65 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3'8 ; tarsus 0"7. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part vii. 



