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Temminck's stint is a common winter visitor, at least to Chiang 

 Mai and Chiang Eai Provinces, and doubtless occurs throughout our 

 area. In the neighborhood of Chiang Mai I recorded it only between 

 November 1 (1935) and February 16 (1932), but I took a specimen at 

 Chiang Rai on May 6, 1936, and another at Ban Mae Chai on May 9 

 of the same year. 



This little sandpiper is found in flocks, often of 50 or more indi- 

 viduals, upon the marshes, at muddy places in the fields, and on the 

 sandy bars and islands of the rivers. 



My specimens had the irides dark brown; the bill black, olive or 

 olive-brown at the base; the feet and toes olive-yellow or yellowish 

 olive ; the soles yellow ; the claws black. 



In winter this stint has the upperparts brownish gray, more or less 

 glossed with olive-green, many of the feathers with obsolescent dark 

 centers ; the underparts white, sullied with brownish gray on the lower 

 neck and breast ; a narrow white bar in the outspread wing; the outer 

 tail feathers white (visible in flight) . 



Late spring specimens have the upperparts browner, many of the 

 feathers blackish with pale rufous margins; the breast more or less 

 definitely streaked with brown and pale rufous. 



EROLIA SUBMINUTA (Middendorff) 



Long-toed Stint 



Tringa subminuta Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, vol. 2, pt. 2, 1851, pp. 222-223, 



pi. 19, fig. 6 (western slopes of the Stanovoi Mountains and mouth of the 



Uda, Siberia). 

 Limonites damacensis, Gyxdenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, 



p. 146 (Ban SopTui). 

 Limonites minutilla subminuta, Gyxdenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 760 (Ban Sop Tui). 

 Erolia subminuta, Rogers and Deignan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1934, p. 92 



(Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 



p. 279 (Chiang Mai). 

 Pisobia subminuta, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 84 



(Chiang Mai). 



The long-toed stint seems to be a species of considerable rarity, and 

 I know of only four specimens from our provinces: a female taken 

 by Gyldenstolpe near Ban Sop Tui (Lampang Province), April 23, 

 1914; a male taken by me at Chiang Mai, January 30, 1932; a male 

 taken by de Schauensee at Chiang Mai, January 26, 1933 ; a male col- 

 lected by me at Ban Mae Chai, May 9, 1936. 



Gyldenstolpe states that his bird was shot on a sand bar in the Mae 

 Wang river, but both of my specimens were found on marshes; the 

 Mae Chai example was associated with Erolia temmincMi. 



One of my birds had the irides brown ; the bill black, olive-brown 

 at the base of the mandible ; the feet and toes olive-yellow ; the claws 



