Pulaardic Birds' Egys. 489 



Pere Armancl David, it breeds in China on the Tche-kiang 

 and Kiang-si Rivers. The egg figured is one of the above- 

 named clutch. 



(5) Tringa ruficollis. Eastern Little Stint. (Plate X. 

 figs. 7, 8, 9.) 



Tringa ruficollis Dresser, Man. Pal, B. p. 771. 



The clutch of eggs figured, for the loan of which I am 

 indebted to Professor Bianchi, belongs to the Imperial 

 Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg, and is, I believe, 

 the only authentic clutch known. They were obtained by 

 Dr. Bunge in the Delta of the Lena, North Siberia, and 

 were recorded by him (Bull. Acad. Imp. des Sciences de 

 St. Petersb. xxix. p. 441) as those of Ti'inga minuta, but Mr. 

 Buturlin, who examined the birds collected by Dr. Bunge, 

 informs me that they were certainly Tringa ruficollis and 

 not T. minuta. Dr. Bunge stated that this Stint [Taler- 

 chadschi, Jakutsk) was the only species of Tringa which he 

 found breeding on Sagastyr, in the Lena Delta. The birds 

 fly continually backwards and forwards, fluttering like Bats, 

 and uttering an uninterrupted shrill churring note. On 

 June 24th (July 6th) he found a nest containing three 

 eggs, and between July 12th and 16th (24th and 28th) 

 young in down were seen, not only in the delta of the Lena 

 but also in about 70'^ N. lat. On July 24th (August 5th) 

 the young were nearly able to fly. In the New Siberian 

 Archipelago the first examples of this Stint were observed 

 on June 4th/16th, and on the 8th/20th of that month they 

 were more numerous. On June 18th/30th a nest was found 

 containing fresh eggs; on the 12th and 17th (24th and 

 29th) of July young in down were seen, and on the 

 lst/13th of August fully fledged young were met with. 

 About the 15th/27th of July fully fledged young birds 

 were seen on Anadyr, on the 28th of July (9th August) 

 in Mechigmensk Bay, and on the lst/13th of August in 

 Plover Bay. 



The nest is a mere depression in the moss with a lining of 

 dry willow-leaves about an inch thick. 



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