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with shafts brown, 5th and succeeding faintly margined white on 

 outer webs ; secondaries sepia broadly tipped white, paler on inner 

 webs, innermost ash-brown tinged olive ; primary-coverts black- 

 brown, inner ones tipped white ; greater coverts sepia broadly 

 edged white ; median and lesser cove its as mantle. This plumage 

 is acquired by complete moult July to Dec. Summer. — The body- 

 feathers, tail (more often central pair only and sometimes not any), 

 innermost secondaries and coverts and apparently primaries, second- 

 aries and their coverts, some median and lesser coverts are moulted 



Feb. to May, sometimes some winter- 

 feathers are retained on upper -parts. 

 Crown and nape sepia, feathers edged 

 warm buff ; mantle and scapulars ash- 

 brown, feathers with dark shafts, some 

 marked black-brown and plentifully 

 interspersed with black-brown feathers 

 edged warm buff ; back, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts as winter ; from 

 base of upper mandible to anterior 

 corner of eye a whitish stripe streaked 

 dusky ; ear-coverts, cheeks and sides 

 Temminck's stint (Caiidris temmincku). of neck light buff streaked dusky ; 

 Tail spread. breast washed warm buff and streaked 



dusky, feathers edged white ; remain- 

 ing under-parts as winter ; tail-feathers as winter but except three 

 outer pairs edged warm buff ; wing as winter but new innermost 

 secondaries and wing-coverts sepia tinged olive and edged buff. 



Nestling. — Like nestling C. minuta but fore-head and nape- 

 pale yellow ; crown and upper-parts intermixed with pale yellow- 

 buff instead of cinnamon -rufous ; under-parts as in C. minuta, but, 

 sometimes paler. 



Juvenile. — Crown sepia, feathers edged warm buff ; nape ash- 

 brown ; mantle and scapulars olive-brown, feathers edged warm 

 buff, some shaded centrally, others subterminally bordered sepia ; 

 centre of back, rump and upper tail-coverts black-brown, feathers 

 edged warm buff ; chin and throat white ; ear -co verts, cheeks,, 

 sides of neck, lower -throat and breast ashy, feathers suffused and 

 tipped buff ; rest of plumage as adult winter ; tail-feathers as adult 

 summer ; wing as adult but innermost secondaries and coverts and 

 median coverts olive-brown, edged warm-buff and mostly with a 

 subterminal sepia bar or border ; lesser coverts black-brown, tipped 

 warm buff. 



First winter. — As adult winter but distinguished by worn buff 

 edges to median and lesser coverts and to feathers of back and 

 rump when not too abraded. The juvenile body -feat hers (not all 

 those of back and rump nor all scapulars), sometimes central pair 

 of tail-feathers, innermost secondaries and coverts, some median 

 and lesser coverts are moulted Aug. to Dec. but not rest of wings- 

 and apparently not rest of tail-feathers. First summer. — Moult as. 





