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In summer the whole upper plumage is greyish brown with blackish 

 centres to the feathers, which are also edged with pale rufous; upper tail- 

 coverts darker; lesser wing-coverts dark brown, the median brown edged 

 with pale rufous, and the greater dark brown tipped with white ; wings and 

 tail much as in winter ; sides of the head and neck, lower throat and 

 breast streaked with fulvous and brown ; chin and remainder of lower 

 plumage white. 



Bill blackish; legs brown; iris dark brown. 



Length 6 inches, tail 2, wing 3*8, tarsus '7, bill from gape *6, middle 

 toe and claw under *8. The female is of about the same size. 



This Stint may always be recognized by the colour of its tail-feathers, 

 the outermost two pairs of which are pure white and the next two more or 

 less albescent. 



Temminck's Stint is comparatively rare in British Burmah. I procured 

 it at Thayetmyo and also at Kyeikpadein ; Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 

 observed it at Tonghoo ; Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan ; and 

 Mr. Davison met with it in numerous places in Tenasserim. 



It occurs, according to season, throughout Europe and Northern Africa, 

 and it is found over the whole continent of Asia from Siberia down to 

 Ceylon, ranging eastwards to China and down to Borneo. It breeds in 

 Siberia and in North Europe. 



This Stint visits Burmah in the winter months ; but I have observed it 

 so seldom that I am unable to say at what time it arrives and departs. Its 

 habits are similar to those of the preceding species. 



735. TRINGA CRASSIROSTBJS. 



THE THICK-BILLED STINT. 



Tringa crassirostris, Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 107, pi. Ixiv. ; 



S. F. i. p. 240 ; Sakad. Ucc. Born. p. 325 ; Wold. Ibis, 1874, p. 147 ; Armstrong, 

 S. F. iv. p. 341 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 468 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113 ; 

 Oates, S. F. x. p. 240. 



Description. Winter plumage. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head 

 and of the neck greyish white, densely streaked with dark brown ; fore 

 neck and breast white, with broader streaks of dark brown ; remainder of 

 the lower plumage, under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the latter 

 with a few brown marks, the sides ot the body with brown streaks ; hind 

 neck, back, scapulars and tertiaries brown, with darker shaft-streaks; 

 wing-coverts brown with dark shaft-streaks, and each feather margined 

 with whitish ; greater coverts and tertiaries very broadly edged with white ; 



