78 SCOLOPACHLE. 



tinged with buff; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; under surface of the wings ash grey, the shafts of 

 all the primaries white ; axillary plume pure white ; legs 

 and toes greenish brown. 



The whole length of the largest specimen I ever saw 

 was five inches and three-quarters ; length of the beak nine- 

 sixteenths of an inch ; from the carpal joint to the end of 

 the first quill-feather, which is the longest in the wing, 

 three inches and five-eighths ; length of the tarsus eleven- 

 sixteenths, the bare part above half the length of the 

 tarsus. 



A specimen killed earlier in the season had not acquired 

 the rufous margins to the dark-coloured feathers of the 

 back and scapulars. 



A young bird of the year, killed in the plumage of its 

 first autumn, has the beak black ; irides dark brown ; 

 head, neck, and upper part of the back, ash grey ; wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, and lower part of the back, ash brown, 

 each feather ending with a half circle of black, and a 

 minute terminal line of white ; primaries dusky black ; 

 secondaries the same, but tipped with white ; tertials ash 

 brown, with dark shafts, and tipped with white ; central 

 tail-feathers elongated, pointed, ash brown, outside feathers 

 white ; chin, neck in front, breast, and all the under sur- 

 face, pure white. 



An adult bird, killed in October, has the head and neck 

 ash grey, varied with dark brown; the back and wing- 

 coverts nearly uniform dusky brown, with narrow lighter- 

 coloured margins. 



The representations of Temminck's Stint here given 

 were taken from an adult bird in spring, and a young bird 

 in autumn. 



