Temminck's Stint - Birdpoints

Temminck's Stint

Calidris temminckii

Full Species (monotypic); i.e. no subspecies/races

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This little species though found throughout Sindh, ( as indeed it is throughout the whole of India during the cold season,) is not nearly so common as the preceding¹. It is readily distinguished from minuta, by the color of its legs and feet which in winter are pale horny green, varying to dusky olive yellow; in summer, olive yellow; while in minuta, they are black at all seasons; in winter and summer, respectively, the two or three outer tail feathers on each side in Temminckii are pure white, in minuta, pale brown; then in winter plumage in Temminckii, there is always a broad dusky or grey brown band extending over the whole breast, which in minuta is confined to the sides of the breast; there is also the difference in color of the shafts of the primaries which I have already noticed in speaking of minuta and damacensis. None of our specimens shew the slightest indication of summer plumage; but specimens of this species also, obtained in other parts of India, in May, exhibit the full summer plumage which is, however, much duller and less rufous than that of the corresponding stage in minuta.

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Calidris minuta – ED.}

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