67. TRINGA. 601 



B. Auatr. vi. pi. .33 (1848) ; Tenon. 8,- Sckl. Faun. Jap. p. 107, 



note. 

 Tringa magna, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 596 (18-56) ; Cass. Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philad. 1858, p. 196 (Ilakodadi) ; Swinh. Ibis, 18G3, 



p. 444 (Japan). 

 Tringa tenuirostris (nee Horn/.), Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 315 



(Shanghai); Gould, Ilandh. B. Auatr. ii. p. 260(1865); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 49, no. 10301 (1871) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. i. p. 60 (1877: Sue Isl. ; Cocoanut Isl.) ; Ramsay, t. c. 



p. 189; Casteln. Sf Ramsay, t. c. p. 384 (Norman R., Gulf of 



Carpentaria) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 338 (N.E. Queensland) ; 



JBlakiston $■ Pn/er, Ibis, 1878, p. 221 (Ilakodadi) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 



1883, p. 86 (Labuan). 

 Tringa canutus (nee Linn.), Jcrd. B. Ltd. iii. p. 688 (1864). 



Adult in winter plumage. Similar to the winter plumage of 

 T. canutus, being ashy grey abovo and white below, but easily 

 distinguished by the longer bill and pure white upper tail-coverts; 

 the dusky spots on the chest and sides of the body smaller and much 

 more distinct. 



Young birds. Similar to the winter plumage of the adults, but 

 blacker, with conspicuous white margins to the feathers of the 

 upper surface ; the rump and upper tail-coverts being also spotted 

 with black, but not barred with dusky as in T. canutus. The head 

 is like the back, black with white edges to the feathers, but there 

 is scarcely any trace of a white eyebrow, the lores and sides of 

 face being thickly spotted with black ; throat white, unspotted ; 

 lower throat and fore-neck light brown, mottled with black spots, 

 the upper breast and sides of the body also plentifully spotted with 

 black, the spots on the sides of the body being large and often 

 arrow-shaped ; axillaries white, with marblings of pale ashy grey. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Does not differ from the winter 

 plumage to the same extent as in T. canutus, the upper surface 

 being only slightly suffused with rufous, the scapulars and the 

 inner secondaries more or less bright chestnut with black sub- 

 terminal bars : the under surface of the body is white, the throat 

 thickly streaked and the fore-neck so closely barred as to become 

 almost black, these black bars extending on to the breast and along 

 the sides of the body ; the under tail-coverts are also spotted with 

 black : " bill brown ; feet grey ; iris dark brown " {L. Taczanoiu- 

 sl-i). Total length 10 - 5 inches, culmen 1*6, wing 6 - 9, tail 2*5, 

 tarsus 1*3. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male, but with 

 less rufous. Total length 10 - 5 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 7 - 5, tail 

 2-65, tarsus 1-3. 



J/idi. Eastern Siberia, migrating south by Japan and China to 

 the Malayan Archipelago and Australia. It also wanders to the 

 -coasts of Western India, as it has been met with at Karachi and on 

 the Laccadives. 



<i-d. 3 imra. ; Mouth of the Amur River, Seebohm Coll. 



e. 9 imm.sk. Aug. (Dbrrivs). 



f. Ad. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



