TEINGA TEMMINCKI. 
(TEMMINCK'S STINT.) 
Tringa pusilla, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 737 (1790, nee Linn.). 
Tringa temminckii, Leisler, Nacht. zu Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. ii. p. 75 (1811); Gould, B. 
of Eur. iv. pi. 333 (1837) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 270 (1849) ; Von Midden- 
dorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 221 (1853); Schrenck, Reisen u. Eorsch. Amur-L. p. 422 (1860); 
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 47 (1864); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 691 (1864); 
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 409 ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 7 (1871) ; Shelley, 
B. of Egypt, p. 252 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 244; Legge, t. c. p. 491 (first 
record from Ceylon); Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1192 (1874); Irby, B. of 
Gibraltar, p. 173 (1875) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 412 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 183 ; 
Butler & Hume, ibid. 1876, p. 17 ; Fairbank, t. c. p. 263; Seebohm & Harvie Brown, 
Ibis, 1876, p. 308; Hume, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 161 ; Ball, ibid. 1878, 
vii. p. 228; Hume, ibid. 1879, viii. (List B. of Ind.), p. 113; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 
p. 149 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 473 (1877). 
Pelidna temminckii (Leisl.), Boie, Isis, 1876, p. 979. 
Leimoneites temminckii (Leisl.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 37 (1829). 
Actodromas temminckii (Leisl.), Salvadori, Uccelli di Born. p. 324(1874); Cripps, Str. Feath. 
1879, p. 303. 
White-tailed Stint, White-tailed Sandpiper of English writers ; Becasseau Temminck, French ; 
Temminck's Strandldufer , German; kleniste Strandlooper, Dutch. 
Adult male and female (Petchora valley : coll. Seebohm). Wing 3- 75 to 3-8 inches; tail 1-8 to 2-0; tarsus 0-65 to 
0-68 ; middle toe and claw 0‘7 ; bill to gape 0-6 to 0-62. 
Adult female (Ceylon, November). Length 6'1 inches ; wing 3’95 ; tail 2-1 ; tarsus 07 ; middle toe and claw O' 75 ; 
bill to gape 0 - 65, at front 0*71. 
The gape is more advanced in this species than the other small members of the genus ( T . minuta, T. subminuta, &e.). 
Iris brown ; bill black, lightish at the base of under mandible ; legs and feet olivaceous greenish, joints dusky plum- 
beous. 
Head and above almost uniform cinereous brown, darkening to blackish brown on the rump and centre of upper tail- 
coverts, and with the wing-coverts pale-edged ; wings and tail dark brown, the secondaries and their coverts and 
inner primaries tipped white, the first quill-shaft white , the remainder brown-, two outer tail-feathers pure 
white, and the adjacent paler brown than the centre pair ; lores and face brown ; a light streak in front and above 
the eye ; chin, gorge, and under surface, with the sides of the rump and upper tail-coverts, white ; chest and 
lower fore neck pale brownish, the feathers light-tipped, the whole forming a broad pectoral band. 
Summer plumage. Adult male (lower Petchora valley, June). Above brown, the feathers of the head and back 
blackish, with greyish-buff and fulvous edgings ; these are most conspicuous on the scapulars, where the black 
coloration is confined to the terminal portion of the feather ; lower bade and rump blackish brown, the feathers 
with indistinct pale tips; wings dark brown; the primary-coverts blackish brown ; the secondaries narrowly 
tipped with white, and the primaries with the first shaft white and the remainder brow nish ; longer tertials with 
buff margins ; outer tail-feathers blackish brown, the next two paler brown, and the remainder white, the third 
feather from the side being sullied ; a dark line through the lores and the forehead scarcely paler than the crown ; 
chin and throat white ; fore neck and chest almost uniform brown, the feathers on the upper part with pale fulvous 
edgings; breast, lower parts, and under tail-coverts white; under wing brown, edged pale along the edge; axil- 
laries white ; legs olive-yellowish. 
