536 CHARADEIIB^:. 



Elephant Point) ; Damd 8c Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 474 (1877) ; Hume, 



Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 462 (1878 : Amherst) ; Hume, Str. F. 



viii. p. 113 (1879) ; Oates, op. cit. x. p. 240 (1882 ; Arakan 



Coast) ; id. Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 395 (1883) ; Nelson, Cruise 



JR. S. 'Corwin,' p. 87, cum tab. (1883: Tapkan, June, July; 



Plover Bay, Bering Sea Coast) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, 



p. 11 (1884 : Yezo and Japan generally) ; Boyd. Consp. Av. Imp. 



Ross. fasc. i. p. 100 (1884); A. 0. U. Check-list N. Am. B. 



p. 152 (1886) ; Palmin, Vega-Exped., Fogelf. p. 326, tab. 4 (1887) ; 



Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 928 



(1893). 

 Eurynorhynchus orientalis, Blyth, Ann. Sf May. Nat. Hist. xiii. 



p. 179 (1844) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1867, p. 234 ; A. Newton, t. c. pp. 235, 



236, note. 

 Tringa pygmsea, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 27 (1864) ; 



Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 440 (1888) ; id. B. Japan. 



Emp. p. 338 (1890). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above dark ashy 

 grey, -with dusky-brown centres to the feathers ; lower back and 

 rump dusky blackish, as well as the central upper tail-coverts and 

 central tail-feathers ; sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts 

 pure white ; tail-feathers light ashy, fringed with white and with 

 a good deal of white on the inner webs, so that the ashy colour 

 forms a dark sub-marginal shade, which becomes darker sub- 

 terminally ; wing-coverts dull ashy, with blackish centres and 

 white margins, the marginal coverts darker, and the greater 

 coverts distinctly tipped with white, forming a wing-band ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts blackish, the inner ones of the latter 

 series tipped with white ; quills ashy brown with white shafts, 

 blackish on the outer web and at the end of the inner web ; the 

 secondaries paler ashy, whitish on the inner web, and fringed with 

 white at the ends ; the innermost secondaries dark brown ; head 

 dark ashy, with blackish centres to the feathers ; the hind-neck 

 rather lighter ashy ; forehead and eyebrow white ; sides of face 

 and entire under surface of body pure white, the ear-coverts 

 narrowly streaked with brown ; the sides of the neck also mottled 

 with brown spots, as also the sides of the upper breast ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pure white : " bill and feet black ; 

 iris dark brown ; under surface of lower mandible thickly papil- 

 lated ; tongue, gape, and inside of mouth purplish black, lighter 

 towards the base " ( W. Davison). Total length 6 - 5 inches, culmen 

 0-9, wing 3-8, tail 1-4, tarsus 0*7. 



Adult female in winter plumage. Similar to the male. Total 

 length 6*5 inches, wing 41. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Differs from the winter plumage 

 in being rufous, the upper surface being black, with more or less 

 distinct rufous margins to the feathers, broader on the scapulars 

 and inner secondaries, the black markings being sub-terminal ; the 

 forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, throat, and fore-neck chestnut, 

 mottled with black spots on the sides of the neck and on the fore- 

 neck, these black spots being also thickly distributed over the 



