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Plates. — Temminck, PL 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. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 217. 

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



Temminck's Stint is the only Tringa having pure white outer tail-feathers. 



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-growth, and in similar localities 

 on the banks of the great rivers as far south as lat. 65°, on the shores of the White 

 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. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



TRINGA MINUTA. 



LITTLE STINT. 



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

 nigris. 



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