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LIMONITES TEMMINCKI. 



Tringa temmincki, Leisl. in Bechst. Naturg. Deutsch. Nachtr. 



ii. p. 78 (1812); Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 230 (1852); 



Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 45, pi. 549, fig. i ; 555 fig. 2 



(1871); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 169 (1883); Saunders, 



ed. Yarrell's Brit. B. iii. p. 398 (1883); Seebohm, Hist. 



Brit. B. iii. p. 217 (1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 



575 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxxi. (1895). 

 Limonites temmincki, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 555 



(1896). 



Adult in Winter Plumage. General colour above ashy-grey, 

 slightly varied with dusky shaft-streaks ; scapulars bronzy- 

 brown like the inner secondaries ; lower back and rump brown, 

 with a sub-terminal shade of darker brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 also dark brown, with longitudinal shaft-streaks of darker 

 brown ; wing-coverts brown, with a slight bronzy gloss, the 

 shaft-lines darker with slight indications of paler edges ; the 

 greater coverts tipped with white, forming a cross-band on the 

 wing ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish-brown, 

 the shafts of the primaries pale whity-brown, that of the first 

 long primary white ; the bastard-primary white, with a brown 

 centre ; all the primaries white at the extreme base ; secon- 

 daries brown, white at base of the inner web, and fringed with 

 white at the ends ; the long inner secondaries bronzy-brown, 

 with dusky centres ; centre tail-feathers dusky-brown, the 

 remainder ashy-brown with white in the centre, increasing 

 in extent towards the outer feathers, the two external ones en- 

 tirely white ; crown of head ashy-brown like the back ; lores 

 dull brown, surmounted by a streak of white, hardly joined to 

 a second streak above the ear-coverts, which forms an indistinct 

 eyebrow ; eyelid white ; sides of face and ear-coverts ashy- 

 brown, streaked with dusky-brown; the cheeks and throat 

 white, with a few dusky streaks on the cheeks and lower 

 throat ; fore-neck and upper breast light ashy-brown ; lower 

 breast, abdomen, sides of body, and flanks pure white ; thighs 

 brown, white internally ; under tail-coverts white; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; the coverts round the bend of the 

 wing dusky-brown with whitish edges, the lower primary-coverts 

 brown, forming a patch; quills below ashy-brown, somewhat 

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