LIMICOL i:— CIIAUADKIIDJ: 271 



Tringa minuta Lclsler. Little Stint. Gcr. Zwcrgstrand- 

 liiufcr ; I/dl. Gainbccchio ; S:uc(i. Smasniippa. 



^ 9 summer. Above black with broad chest mil margins and 

 some white tips, inner primaries with while shafts, outer tail 

 feathers smoky brown ; beneath white, chest greyish with 

 chestnut and brown spots. Bill short, narrow, black. Legs and 

 feet black. In winter : above grey brown with dark shaft streaks ; 

 beneath white. Wing ^ 92-98, ? 96-101. Tarsus ^ 20-21, 

 $ 20-23. liill c^ 16-19, ? 18-19. 



/j/vtv/y.— Finmark (Porsanger Fiord), N. Russian tundras from 

 Murmansk to Petchora, and on Nova Zembla, Waigatz, Dolgoi 

 and Kolguev Islands ; also locally in N. Russia south to Govts, 

 of Moscow, Jaroslav, Perm, and Uralsk ; and in W. Siberia. 

 Migrates ; occurs on passage in Britain and Continental Europe 

 to Mediterranean, and Asia south to Turkestan. Winters in 

 S.W. Asia and Africa south to Cape. It often remains in winter 

 quarters during our summer, but does not breed. 



Tringa minutilla Vieillot. American Stint. 



o '4^ Resemble "minuta" but legs slightly paler, more grey 

 brown, breast somewhat more spotted and black centres of 

 feathers of upper parts slightly more developed, while chestnut 

 margins are narrower. In winter distinguished from "minuta" 

 by dusky shaft-streaks on upper breast. Wing ^ $ 8890. 

 Tarsus 17-19. Bill 16.5-19. 



A North American species of rare occurrence in Euro})e. 

 Recorded SAV. England four times. 



Tringa temmincki Leisler. TeimiMinck's Stint. Gcr. 

 Grauer Zwergstrandlaufer ; I^dl. Gambecchio nano ; Siucd. 

 Mosniippa. 



^ 9 adult, summer. Aljove black and grey mottled, with rufous 

 edges and a bronzy shade, rump uniform dark brown, outer tail 

 feathers pure white, shaft of ist primary only while ; beneath white, 

 foreneck and chest greyish buffwith dark brown streaks. Bill black, 

 olive brown at base below. Legs and feet olive yellow to olive 

 blown. In winter, above grey brown with dark streaks ; beneath 

 white, foreneck and chest greyish brown. Wing^^ '4? 97-100. 'Jarsus 

 17-19. Bill 16-18. Young: above more bronzy and less black than 

 summer adult, with buff edges and no streaks on foreneck. 



