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black; tail cuneiform, the central pair of feathers the long- 

 est, the darkest in colour, and pointed ; the next feather on 

 each outside ash-brown, the next ash-grey, the three outside 

 feathers on each side white, tinged with light ash-grey on the 

 narrow outer webs only, the outside feather on each side 

 being the shortest ; the chin white ; sides of the neck grey ; 

 the neck in front pale brown, spotted with dusky-brown, and 

 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. A specimen killed earlier in the season had 

 not acquired the rufous margins to the dark-coloured feathers 

 of the back and scapulars. 



An adult bird, killed in October, had 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 whole length is 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, nearly four inches ; length of the tarsus eleven-sixteenths. 



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 surface, pure white. 



The representations of Temminck's Stint here given were 

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

 autumn. A ready means of distinguishing this species from 

 the Little Stint, as pointed out by Mr. Harting (B. Middle- 

 sex, p. 199), is by the white shaft to the first quill-feather 

 only, the ivhite outer tail-feathers, and the light-coloured legs. 

 Temminck's Stint is a miniature Common Sandpiper, whereas 

 the Little Stint is a miniature Dunlin. 



