temminck's dunlin. 
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the breast, where it is mixed with light brown : the 
crown of the head, back, scapulars, and coverts of 
the wings dusky-black, more or less margined with 
pale rufous, but in some of the scapulars the margins 
are nearly white ; these marginated feathers give the 
bird a spotted appearance : the back of the neck 
brown mixed with cinereous : quills like those of the 
female : the middle feathers of the tail are like the 
tertials, dusky, bordered with ferruginous^ the others 
cinereous, palest on the margin : legs dusky.'* 
The female was shot on a salt marsh in the month 
of November, and the young bird at the mouth of 
the Bry, near Bridgewater, in September, by Mr. 
Anstice, who observed a small flock of six, four of 
which he shot, but was unable to obtain more than 
one, on account of the softness of the mud. It also 
occurs in various parts of North America, particularly 
about Nootka Sound. 
temminck's dunlin. 
(Pelidna Temminckii.) 
Pe. Cauda cuneiforma, rostro apice subindinante, capite breviore, 
rectricibus tribus exterioribus albis. 
Dunlin with a wedge-shaped tail, the beak rather inclined at its 
tip, shorter than its head, the three outer tail-feathers white. 
Tringa Temminckii. Leisler. Temm. man. d'Orn. 401. 
Becasseau temmia. Temm. man. d'Orn. 401. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 
C22. 
