TRINGA. 141 



Genus TRIXGA Linnanis, 1758. 



Bill straight, cuhnen longer than tarsus, the latter exceeding middle 

 toe with claw; wing long and pointed, when folded reaching the tip of 

 tail, the latter nearly square. Pisobia is somewhat similar to this genus 

 but has a niuch shorter I)ill and the species are much smaller. 



119. TRINGA CRASSIROSTRIS Temminck and Schlegel. 



ASIATIC KNOT. 



Tringa crassirostris Temmixck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica (1847), 107, 

 pi. 64; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 600; Hand-List 

 (1899), 1, 164-; Blaxford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 277; 

 McGregor and Worcester, lland-List (1906), 28. 



Mindanao? {Meanis); Negros {Steere, Bourns d Worcester). Eastern Siberia 

 and Japan ; in winter China to Australia and western Indian Peninsula^ 



''Adult in winter plumage. — Similar to the winter plumage of T. canu- 

 tus, being ashy gray above and white below, but easily distinguished by 

 the longer bill and pure white upper tail-coverts; the dusky spots on 

 chest and sides of body smaller and much more distinct. 



"Young. — Similar to the adult winter plumage but l)lacker, with 

 conspicuous white margins to the feathers of the upper surface; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts spotted with ])lack, Imt not barred with dusky as 

 in T. ranutus; head like the l)ack, black with white edges to the feathers, 

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

 being thickly spotted with l)lack; throat white, unspotted; lower throat 

 and fore neck liglit brown, mottled with black spots; upper breast and 

 sides of body also plentifully spotted with black, the spots on the sides 

 of the body being large and often arrow-shaped ; axillars white, with 

 marblings of pale ashy gray. 



"Adult male in breeding phnnage. — Does not differ from the winter 

 plumage to the same extent as in T. ranutus; upper surface only slightly 

 suffused with rufous; scapulars and inner secondaries mon.' or less bright 

 chestnut with black subterminal bars; under surface white; throat thickly 

 streaked and fore neck so closely barred as to become almost black, these 

 l)lack l)ars extending on to breast and along the sides of ])ody ; the under 

 tail-coverts spotted with black. 'Bill brown; feet gray; iris dark brown.' 

 (Tarzanotvski.) Length, 267; culmen, 41; wing, 175; tiiil, 63; 

 tarsus, 33. 



".\dult female in breeding plumage. — Similar to the male, but with 

 less rufous. Length, 267; culmen, 43; wing, lf)(»; tail. (i7 ; tarsus, 33." 

 { Sharpe.) 



"Coloration in u-inter. — Upper parts light brownish gray, with black 

 shaft-stripes which are l)roadest on the crown; sides of head and neck 

 whitish, with dark streaks, supercilia and cheeks paler; wing-coverts with 



