300 BULLETIN 50^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tringa fuscicollis (not of Yieillot) Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1S45-6, 51 

 (according to Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 561). 



[Pelidna] nana Lichtexstei>7, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (nomen nudum; 

 South America). 



Tringa nana Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 375. 



PISOBIA SUBMINUTA (Middendorfif). 



LONG-TOED STINT. 



Somewhat resembling P. minutiUa, but tarsi and toes much longer^ 

 the middle toe, without claw, longer than exposed culmen and as 

 long as tarsus; shafts of all the primaries except the outermost 

 wholly grayish brown; and, in summer adults, scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars largely intermixed with cinnamon and pale buff. 



Adults in summer. — Feathers of pileum, together with scapulars- 

 and interscapulars, broadly black mediall}^ or centrally, broadly 

 edged or margined with light buffy brown or cinnamon, the black 

 forming broad streaks on crown, large irregular spots or blotches on 

 dorsal region; hindneck light grayish buffy broadly streaked with 

 dusky; anterior lesser wing-coverts plain dark grayish brown, the re- 

 maining coverts the same centrally but broadly margined (especially 

 at tips) with lighter grayish brown or pale grayish buff, the greater 

 coverts without white tips; secondaries grayish brown indistinctly 

 margined at tips with paler; tertiajs dusky broadly edged with light 

 brownish buff or pale cinnamon; primaries and primary coverts 

 dusky grayish brown, the latter with shafts wholly grayish brown, 

 except the outermost, the shaft of which is wholly yellowish white; 

 rump and median upper tail-coverts plain sooty black, the lateral 

 upper tail-coverts white (nearly if not quite immaculate); middle pair 

 of rectrices dusky narrowly edged with pale buffy brownish or whitish, 

 the remaining rectrices light brownish gra}^ narrowly margined ter- 

 minally with whitish; sides of pileum (superciliary region) dull 

 brownish white narrowly streaked with blackish, the supraloral, 

 superciliary, and supra-auricular regions mostly unstreaked; lores 

 more brownish, flecked with dusky, forming a more or less dis- 

 tinct streak between bill and eye; rictal, suborbital, auricular, and 

 malar regions very pale brownish buftV narrowly streaked Avith 

 dusk}^, this usually predominating on auricular region, which is 

 more or less tinged with brown; chin and upper throat immaculate 

 white or buffy white; lower throat, fonmeck, chest, and sides of 

 breast pale brownish buff}^ (nearly cartridge buff) more or less dis- 

 tinctly streaked with dusky grayish brown; rest of under parts, 

 including axillars and posterior under wing-coverts, immaculate 

 whit(^; bill blackish, the base of mandible more brownish; iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet dark brownish (grayish yellow in life)." 



« According to Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. 



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