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that season the head, neck, and whole lower parts of a more 
or less uniform brownish red, but he neglects the, to my 
mind, most characteristic and patent differences, which 
enable us at once to fix the species of any specimen without 
comparison, even in winter plumage : viz., that in T. cinclus 
the two central tail feathers have the whole inner webs 
(and sometimes portions of the outer webs also) blackish 
brown, and all but the outer upper tail-coverts are blackish, 
while in T. subar quota all the tail feathers are grey with a 
somewhat greenish gloss, and all the upper tail-coverts are 
white in winter, or white barred with red and dusky in 
summer. 
In size the Yarkand birds corresponded with European 
examples, but slightly exceeded the dimensions of others 
procured in the neighbourhood of Calcutta. I have not 
enough European specimens to decide whether this diffe- 
rence is constant. [A. 0. H.'\ 
885. Tringa Temmincki (Leisler). 
This little Stint appears to be very common in suitable 
localities in Yarkand, ^here it probably breeds. [G. H.'\ 
Specimens, however, obtained there in August had ob- 
viously from the plumage bred at teast two months prior to 
that period, so that possibly they breed a good deal further 
north, and only spend the early autumn in Yarkand en 
route for their cold weather residences in India. Inde- 
pendent of its whiter tail, this species may be at once dis- 
tinguished from both* T, minuta and T. damacensis (which 
have them black) by its olive-yellow legs and feet. 
892. Actitis ochropus (Linn.). 
Common everywhere near water throughout Yarkand. 
[G. H.-] 
893. Actitis hypoleucus (Linn.) 
The Common Sandpiper was often seen in May and 
June in Kashmir (where it breeds in considerable numbers). 
Both these closely-allied species occur in India. [-4. O. H.^ 
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