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lighter along the inner edge ; bill brownish -black ; feet brown- 
ish-grey ; iris hazel. Total length, 5‘5 inches ; culmen, o’6 j 
wing, 3'8; tail, i’8; tarsus, 07 ; mid toe and claw, 07. 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Only differs from the winter 
plumage in being more mottled above, the feathers having 
black centres and being tinged with rufous, especially on the 
edges of the feathers, the lower throat and chest having also 
some distinct shaft-lines ; “ bill olive-black, lighter olive- 
brownish at base, especially on the lower mandible ; feet 
olive-yellow, the joints more dusky ; iris dark brown.” Total 
length, 5-3 inches ; culmen, 075 ; wing, 37 ; tail, i-8; tarsus, 
o' 65 ; middle toe and claw, 07. 
Adult Female in Breeding Plumage. — Similar to the male, and 
apparently quite as much mottled. Total length, 5-2 inches ; 
culmen, o-8; wing, 3‘9 j tail, i'85 ; tarsus, o’ 6 s ; middle toe 
and claw, 07. 
Young Birds. — These can always be distinguished from the 
adults, in summer or winter plumage, by the narrow sandy-buff 
margins to the feathers of the upper surface, and by the ashy- 
fulvous tinge on the fore-neck, which is devoid of the dusky 
streaks seen in the adults. 
Nestling. — Covered with golden-buff down, spotted with black, 
and spangled with silvery tips to the down ; the black forms a 
line down the centre of the back ; under surface dull white, 
tinged with buff on the fore-neck. 
Characters — Temminck’s Stint is easily recognised from the 
other species of the genus Limonites by its smaller size and 
white outer tail-feathers. 
Range in Great Britain. — Like the I.ittle Slint, the present 
species visits us in spring and autumn as it passes to its 
northern breeding-grounds, or to its winter home in the south. 
It is, however, not nearly so often observed as the Little Stint, 
and is somewhat irregular in its visits, being generally observed 
singly. It has been doubtfully recorded from Caithness, and 
appears seldom to visit Ireland, as both the Scotch and Irish 
records are not altogether satisfactory. On the west coast of 
England, too, it has not been often met with, and the principal 
counties where the species has been observed are those of the 
