TEMMINCk’s SANDPIPER. 
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minck’s Sandpiper and Stint, Selby and Yarrell , — 
is rather less than the last, has the tail graduated, 
and the tarsus comparatively shorter. In a conti- 
nental specimen before us, in the intermediate plu- 
mage, the upper parts are hair-brown, the feathers 
darker in the centre, a few dark feathers with 
rufous margins being interspersed ; the sides of the 
neck and breast are hair-brown, and the remaining 
under parts are white. In summer, the rufous 
colours above predominate, and tint the neck and 
breast ; and, in the winter, the upper parts are hair- 
brown, tinted with olive. This specimen is only 
about five inches and a-quarter in length, and Mr. 
Yarrell gives five and three-quarters as the length 
of the largest specimen he has seen. He states the 
length of the tarsus also at eleven-sixteenths ; Mr. 
Selby at five-eighths ; in the specimen before us it 
is nearly six-tenths. Temminck’s Sandpiper is de- 
scribed to approach nearer to some of the Tolani in 
habits, frequenting at times rivers of fresh water 
rather than the shores of the sea. It has occurred 
several times in England, but more sparingly than 
the last ; Mr. Thompson mentions its appearance in 
Ireland, but we have not met with Scotch specimens. 
Out of Europe, North Africa and Himalaya are 
given to it,* also the Dukhun,+ Timor, and the 
Indian Archipelago and Mr. Jerdan places it 
with a ? in his catalogue of the birds of the Penin- 
sula of India. 1 1 
* Gould. + Colonel Sykes, £ Temminck. 
|| Madras Journal, July, 1840, p. 209. 
