TEINQA. 



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Plates.— Temminck, PI. Col. no. 41; Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 73; Dresser, Birds of Literature. 



Europe, viii. pi. 549. fig. 1, pi. 551. fig. 2. 

 Habits. — Seebohra, British Birds, iii. p. 217. 

 Eggs.— Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 31. figs. 7, 8. 



Temminck's Stint is the only Tringa having /»2<re widte outer tail-feathers. Specific 



It IS essentially an Arctic bird, breeding in the Old World portion of the Circum- 



polar Region on the tundras above the limit of forest-grovpth, and in similar localities Geographi- 



,,,„,. ° cal distribu- 



on the banks oi the great nvers as far south as lat. 65 , on the shores of the White tion. 



Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, and as far south as lat. 55° on the shores of the Sea of 



Okhotsk. It is also recorded as breeding above the limit of forest-growth on the Pamir 



and the mountains of Dauria ; but the evidence in support of these statements is very 



unsatisfactory. It has not been recorded from Kamtschatka, nor has it ever been observed 



in Japan ; but it was obtained by the ' Vega ' expedition in Tchuski-Land. On migration 



it passes not only along the coasts of Europe and China, but also along most of the inland 



lines of migration, to its winter- quarters in the basin of the Mediterranean and North 



Africa, India and Ceylon, Burma, South China, Borneo, and probably other islands of the 



Malay Archipelago. 



TRINGA MINUTA. 



LITTLE STINT. 



Tringa magnitudine parvS, (alse quam 100 millim. breviores) : rostro ad basin latissimo ; pedibus Diagnosis, 

 nigris. 



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