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minck's Sandpiper and Stint, Selby and Yarrell, 

 is rather less than the last, has the tail graduated, 

 and the tarsus comparatively shorter. In a conti- 

 nental specimen before us, in the intermediate plu- 

 mage, the upper parts are hair-brown, the feathers 

 darker in the centre, a few dark feathers with 

 rufous margins being interspersed ; the sides of the 

 neck and breast are hair-brown, and the remaining 

 under parts are white. In summer, the rufous 

 colours above predominate, and tint the neck and 

 breast ; and, in the winter, the upper parts are hair- 

 brown, tinted with olive. This specimen is only 

 about five inches and a-quarter in length, and Mr. 

 Yarrell gives five and three-quarters as the length 

 of the largest specimen he has seen. He states the 

 length of the tarsus also at eleven-sixteenths ; Mr. 

 Selby at five-eighths ; in the specimen before us it 

 is nearly six-tenths. Temminck's Sandpiper is de- 

 scribed to approach nearer to some of the Totani in 

 habits, frequenting at times rivers of fresh water 

 rather than the shores of the sea. It has occurred 

 several times in England, but more sparingly than 

 the last ; Mr. Thompson mentions its appearance in 

 Ireland, but we have not met with Scotch specimens. 

 Out of Europe, North Africa and Himalaya are 

 given to it,* also the Dukhun,t Timor, and the 

 Indian Archipelago ;J and Mr. Jerdan places it 

 with a ? in his catalogue of the birds of the Penin- 

 sula of India. 1 1 



* Gould. f Colonel Sykes, Temminck. 



U Madras Journal, July, 1840, p. 209. 



