262 A HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN BIRDS. 
Birds of the year: “ DMfer from adults in winter plumage 
in having chestnut margins to the wing-coverts and the two 
centre tail-feathers ” (Seebohm). 
Distribution: Breeds in the extreme north-east of 
Europe and in Northern Asia, occurring elsewhere in Europe 
and Asia on migration. Winters as far south as South Africa 
and India. 
Habitat: The sea-shore and marine mud flats, retiring to 
the “tundra ” to mest. 
TEMMINCK’S STINT. 
Tringa temmincki Lezs/. 
Adult (Summer): “The general colour of the upper 
parts is greyish-brown, many of the feathers, sometimes more 
and sometimes fewer, being dark brown, margined and irregu- 
larly barred with buffish-chestnut ; the four centre tail-feathers 
are dark brown, and the ¢hree outer ones on each side are white ; 
the quills are brown, the first only with a white shaft, and a 
white bar is formed across the wing by the greater coverts 
having white tips. In the colour of the under parts it does 
not differ from the Little Stint. Bull brownish-black ; legs, 
feet and claws brownish- grey; irides hazel” (Seebohm). 
Length 5:5 to 5°75 inches ; calmen 0°65; wing 3°75; tail 1:9; 
tarsus 0°7. 
Adult (Winter): Above brownish-grey, the feathers 
having dark centres and pale margins; beneath unstreaked ; 
tail-feathers as in summer. 
Young in first plumage: Feathers of upper parts with 
buff margins and dark brown sub-marginal bands; beneath 
suffused with buff on flanks and breast and on latter streaked 
with brown, otherwise very similar to adult in winter. May 
be readily distinguished by the white outermost tail-feathers. 
Distribution: Breeds in North-eastern Europe and 
Northern Asia beyond the limits of forest-growth, ranging 
southward in autumn across both continents to both eastern 
and western shores of Africa, to India and the Malay Archi- 
pelago. 
Habitat: Very similar to that of Z ménuta. 
