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HI, temminck’s stint, limonites temmincki. 
Tringa temmincki, Leisl. in Bechst. Naturg. Deutsch. Nachtr. 
ii. p. 78 (1812); Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 230 (1852); 
Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 45, pi. 549, fig. i ; 555 fig. 2 
(1871); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 169 (1883); Saunders, 
ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 398 (1883); Seebohm, Hist. 
Brit. B. iii. p. 217 (1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 
S75 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxxi. (1895). 
Limonites temmincki, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 555 
(1896). 
Adult in Winter Plumage. — General colour above ashy-grey, 
slightly varied with dusky shaft-streaks ; scapulars bronzy- 
brown like the inner secondaries ; lower back and rump brown, 
with a sub-terminal shade of darker brown ; upper tail-coverts 
also dark brown, with longitudinal shaft-streaks of darker 
brown ; wing-coverts brown, with a slight bronzy gloss, the 
shaft-lines darker with slight indications of paler edges ; the 
greater coverts tipped with white, forming a cross-band on the 
wing ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish-brown, 
the shafts of the primaries pale whity-brown, that of the first 
long primary white ; the bastard-primary white, with a brown 
centre ; all the primaries white at the extreme base ; secon- 
daries brown, white at base of the inner web, and fringed with 
white at the ends ; the long inner secondaries bronzy-brown, 
with dusky centres ; centre tail-feathers dusky-brown, the 
remainder ashy-brown with white in the centre, increasing 
in extent towards the outer feathers, the two external ones en- 
tirely white ; crown of head ashy-brown like the back ; lores 
dull brown, surmounted by a streak of white, hardly joined to 
a second streak above the ear -coverts, which forms an indistinct 
eyebrow ; eyelid white ; sides of face and ear-coverts ashy- 
brown, streaked with dusky-brown ; the checks and throat 
white, with a few dusky streaks on the cheeks and lower 
throat ; fore-neck and upper breast light ashy-brown ; lower 
breast, abdomen, sides of body, and flanks pure white ; thighs 
brown, white internally ; under tail-coverts white; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries white ; the coverts round the bend of the 
wing dusky-brown with whitish edges, the lower primary-coverts 
brown, forming a patch ; quills below ashy-brown, somewhat 
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