. An illustrated manual of British birds . sides of the facewhitish; throat white; chest ashy, mottled with dark brown inthe centres of some of the feathers ; rest of the under surfacewhite ; under wing-coverts whitish, some of the lower ones mottledwith brown ; bill nearly black; legs dusky olive-brown ; iris darkhazel. Externally there is no material difference between thesexes. Total length about 5*5 in. ; wing 3-5 in. In autumn someof the feathers of the back and scapulars have pale grey winter-plumage is ash-grey above, some of the dorsal feathersbeing dark purplish-brown in the
. An illustrated manual of British birds . sides of the facewhitish; throat white; chest ashy, mottled with dark brown inthe centres of some of the feathers ; rest of the under surfacewhite ; under wing-coverts whitish, some of the lower ones mottledwith brown ; bill nearly black; legs dusky olive-brown ; iris darkhazel. Externally there is no material difference between thesexes. Total length about 5*5 in. ; wing 3-5 in. In autumn someof the feathers of the back and scapulars have pale grey winter-plumage is ash-grey above, some of the dorsal feathersbeing dark purplish-brown in the centre and margined with white ;the lower part of back and the rump are blackish ; the wing-covertslike the back, the greater coverts clearer brown, and indistinctlytipped with white ; rest of the plumage as in summer. The Semi-palmated Sandpiper, T. pusilla, another very common and widely-distributed species in America, may always be distinguished fromthe present by having the anterior toes webbed at the base. ^. 575 ^ -m4i. TEMMINCKS STINT. Tringa TEMMiNCKi, Lcister. Though less rare on migration than was formerly supposed, thisspecies is more irregular than the Little Stint in its visits to (JreatBritain, notwithstandmg that its western breeding-grounds are at nogreat distance from our northern shores. There is, however, onlyone very questionable record of its occurrence in Caithness,while few examples, and those at long intervals, have been obtainedon the east coast of England between Northumberland and thesouth of Lincolnshire, in autumn. In Norfolk a good many havebeen met with at that season—one as late as November 23rd—while about ten have been procured on the return passage in May ;thence it can be traced along the rest of the eastern sea-boardand the whole of the Channel to Cornwall and the Scilly has also been found inland, as at Kingsbury Reservoir inMiddlesex, Foulmire in Cambridgeshire, Mansfield Reservoir inNottinghamshire, Ribbleton M
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