TRINGA TEMMINCIL 



(TEMMINCK'S STINT.) 



Tringa pusilla, Lath. Intl. Orn. ii. p. 737 (1790, nee Linn.). 



Tringa temminckii, Leisler, Nacht. zu Bechst. Naturg. Deutsehl. ii. p. 75 (1811); Gould, B. 

 of Eur. iv. pi. 333 (1837); Blyth, .Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 270 (1S49) ; Von Midden- 

 dorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 221 (1853); Schrenck, Reisen u. Forsch. Amur-L. p. 422 (1860); 

 Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 47 (1864); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 691 (1864); 

 Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 409 ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 7 (1871) ; Shelley, 

 B. of Egypt, p. 252 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 244; Legge, t. e. p. 491 (first 

 record from Ceylon) ; Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1192 (1874) ; Irby, B. of 

 Gibraltar, p. 173 (1875) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 412; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 183 ; 

 Butler & Hume, ibid. 1876, p. 17; Fairbank, t. c. p. 263; Seebohm & Harvie Brown, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 308; Hume, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 161 ; Ball, ibid. 1878, 

 vii. p. 228; Hume, ibid. 1879, viii. (List B. of Ind.), p. 113; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 149 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 473 (1877). 



Pelidna temminckii (Leisl.), Boie, Isis, 1876, p. 979. 



Leimoneites temminckii (Leisl.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 37 (1829). 



Actodromas temminckii (Leisl.), Salvadori, Uccelli di Born. p. 324 (1874); Cripps, Str. Feath. 

 1879, p. 303. 



TV/iite-tailed Stint, White-tailed Sandpiper of English writers; Becasseau Temminck, French ; 

 Temminck's Strandlciiifer, German ; kleniste Strandlooper, Dutch. 



Athilt male and female (Petchora valley: coll. Seebohm). Wing 3 - 75 to 3-8 inches; tail 1*8 to 2-0 ; tarsus 0-05 to 

 0-68 ; middle toe and claw 0-7 ; bill to gape 0-6 to 0-62. 



Adult female (Ceylon, November). Length G - l inches ; wing 3 - 95 ; tail 2-1 ; tarsus 0-7 ; middle toe and claw 0-75 ; 

 bill to gape - 65, at front 0-71. 



The gape is more advanced in this species than the other small members of the genus (T. minuta, T. subminuta, &c). 



Iris brown ; bill black, lightish at the base of under mandible ; legs and feet olivaceous greenish, joints dusky plum- 

 beous. 



Head and above almost uniform cinereous brown, darkening to blackish brown ou the rump and centre of upper tail- 

 coverts, and with the wing-coverts pale-edged ; wings and tail dark brown, the secondaries and their coverts and 

 inner primaries tipped white, the first quill-shaft white, the remainder brown; tiro outer tail-feathers pure 

 white, and the adjacent paler brown than the centre pair ; lores and face brown ; a light streak in front and above 

 the eye ; chin, gorge, and under surface, with the sides of the rump and upper tail-coverts, white; chest and 

 lower fore neck pale brownish, the feathers light-tipped, the whole forming a broad pectoral band. 



Summer plumage. Adult male (lower Petchora valley, June). Above brown, the feathers of the head and back 

 blackish, with greyish-buff and fulvous edgings ; these are most conspicuous on the scapulars, where the black 

 coloration is confined to the terminal portion of the feather ; lower back and rump blackish brown, the feathers 

 with indistinct pale tips ; wings dark brown ; the primary-coverts blackish brown ; the secondaries narrowly 

 tipped with white, and the primaries with the first shaft white and the remainder brownish ; longer tertials with 

 bufi margins ; outer tail-feathers blackish brown, the next two paler brown, aud the remainder white, the third 

 feather from the side being sullied ; a dark liue through the lores and the forehead scarcely paler than the crown ; 

 chin and throat white ; fore neck and chest almost uniform brown, the feathers on the upper part with pale fulvous 

 edgings; breast, lower parts, and under tail-coverts white ; under wing brown, edged pale along theed°-e: axil- 

 laries white ; legs olive-yellowish. 



