THE THICK-BILLED STINT. 
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In summer the whole upper plumage is greyish brown with blackish 
centres to the feathers,, which are also edged with pale rufous ; upper tail- 
coverts darker; lesser wing-coverts dark brown^ the median brown edged 
with pale rufous^ and the greater dark brown tipped with white ; wings and 
tail much as in winter ; sides of the head and neck, lower throat and 
breast streaked with fulvous and brown ; chin and remainder of lower 
plumage white. 
Bill blackish; legs brown; iris dark brown. 
Length 6 inches, tail 2, wing 3'8, tarsus '7, bill from gape '6, middle 
toe and claw under "8. The female is of about the same size. 
This Stint may always be recognized by the colour of its tail-feathers, 
the outermost two pairs of which are pure white and the next two more or 
less albescent. 
Temminck^s Stint is comparatively rare in British Burmah. I procured 
it at Thayetmyo and also at Kyeikpadein ; Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
observed it at Tonghoo ; Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan ; and 
Mr. Davison met with it in numerous places in Tenasserim. 
It occurs, according to season, throughout Europe and Northern Africa, 
and it is found over the whole continent of Asia from Siberia down to 
Ceylon, ranging eastwards to China and down to Borneo. It breeds in 
Siberia and in North Europe. 
This Stint visits Burmah in the winter months ; but I have observed it 
so seldom that I am unable to say at what time it arrives and departs. Its 
habits are similar to those of the preceding species. 
735. TRINGA CRASSIROSTRIS. 
THE THICK-BILLED STINT. 
Tringa crassirostris, Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 107, pi. Ixiv. ; Hume, 
S. F. i. p. 240 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 325 j Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 147 ; Armstrong, 
S. F. iv. p. 341 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 468*, Hume.) S. F. viii. p. 113; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 240. 
Description. — Winter plumage. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head 
and of the neck greyish white, densely streaked with dark brown ; fore 
neck and breast white, with broader streaks of dark brown ; remainder of 
the lower plumage, under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the latter 
with a few brown marks, the sides ot the body with brown streaks ; hind 
neck, back, scapulars and tertiaries brown, with darker shaft-streaks ; 
wing-coverts brown with dark shaft-streaks, and each feather margined 
with whitish ; greater coverts and tertiaries very broadly edged with white ; 
