538 



CHAKADRIID.E. 



dominating over the black on the upper 



surface minuta, p. 538. 



b'". Tarsus shorter, 0'75 inch ; entire throat 

 and chest bright rufous in summer 

 plumage, the rufous colour predomi- 

 nating over the black on the upper 



surface , ruficollis, p. 545. 



b". Size smaller ; centre of the fore-neck and 

 chest ashy with dark shaft-streaks, forming 

 more or less of a pectoral band (winter 

 plumage) ; black predominating over the 



rufous in summer plumage minutilla, p. 548. 



b'. Feet olive-brown ; middle toe and claw - 9 



inch damacensis, p. 553. 



b. Outer tail-feathers pure white temmincki, p. 555. 



1. Limonites minuta. 



Tringa pusilla (nee Linn.), Meyer u. Wolf, Taschenb. ii. p. 391 

 (1810) ; Horn; Orn. Prov. pi. 289 (1825). 



Tringa minuta, Leisl. in Bechst. Nature/. Deutschl. Nachtr. i. p. 74 

 (1812) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1815, p. 403, 1820, ii. p. 624 ; Boie, 

 Isis, 1822, p. 561 ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 16 (1827) ; Naum. 

 Vog. Deutschl. vii. taf. 184 (1834) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 332 

 (1837) ; Crcspon, Orn. Gard, p. 416 (1840) ; Keys. u. Bias. 

 Wirh. Eur. pp. lxxvii, 215 (1840) ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Buss. 

 Mkrid. iii. p. 238 (1840 : Bessarabia, Crimea) ; Selys Longeh. 

 Faune Beige, p. 125 (1842) ; Milhle, Orn. Griechenl. p. 106 (1844) ; 

 Schl. Bev. Crit. p. xc (1844) ; Hodcis. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., 

 Grail, pi. 94, nos. 751, 752 ; id. in Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 579 (1845) ; fhomps. B. Irel. ii. p. 298 

 (1850: autumn); Midd. Reis. Sibir., Zool. p. 221 (1851: Taimyr 

 River, 70°, June 17, breeding ; Boganida River, June 6) ; Macgill. 

 Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 227 (1852) ; Kjarb. Orn. Dan. Svppl. pi.' 16. 

 fig. 5 (1852) ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 233 (1854) ; Heugl. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 63 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 238 (1857 : 

 Gambia, Gaboon) ; Jaub. fy Barth.-Lapomm. Bich. Orn. p. 468 

 (1859); Schrenck, Beis. Amurl. p. 423 (1859: Amoor-land) ; 

 Powys, Ibis, 1860, p. 343 (Ionian Isl.) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. 

 p. 144 (1860); Schl. Dier. Nederl. pi. 24. figs. 7, 8, 8 a (1861) ; 

 Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 241 (Oudh) ; Gray, Cat. Brit. B. p. 169 

 (1863) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 43 (1864) ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. iii. p. 690 (1864) ; Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 148 (Malta, spring) ; 

 Sperling, t. c. p. 287 (Missolonghi) ; Gurney, t. c. p. 272 ; Drake, 

 Ibis, 18*67, p. 429 (Tangier); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 469 (Trans- 

 vaal) ; Drake, t. e. p. 184 (Laraiche) ; E. Newton, t. c. pp. 342, 359 

 (Seychelles) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 331 (1867) ; Borggr. Vogelf. 

 Norddeutschl. p. 118 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. $ Zool. Abyss, p. 433 

 (1870: Zoulla); Fmsch fy Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 764 (1870); 

 Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 17 (Sinai Peninsula) ; Elwes <$• Buckley, t. c. 

 p. 331 (Bosphorus) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 50, no. 10311 (1871) ; 

 B. Gray, B. W. Scotl. p. 320 (1871) ; Sharpe Sf Dresser, B. Eur. 

 viii. p. 29, pi. 549. fig. 1 (festiv.), pi. 550. fig. 1 (pull.), 551. fig. 1 

 (juv.), 552. fig. 1 (hiem.) ; Harting, Handb. Brit. B. p. 49 

 (1872); Heugl. Ibis, 1872, p. 63 (Novava Zemlya, breeding); 

 Gwney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 310 (1872: Oct. to April) ; 



