250 TEINGINilJ. 



According to ScUegel tlie summer plumage is as follows: — 



" Feathers of the head and neck each with a large dark brown 

 longitudinal streak or spot on an albescent ground, which is tinged 

 with brownish rufous on the nape. Feathers of the breast and nape 

 brownish black, each with a whitish transverse band about the middle, 

 often tinged with brownish red towards the middle. The rest of the 

 lower parts and the rump pure white, spotted^ except towards the 

 middle of the abdomen, with broader or narrower dark spots. Back 

 and wings brownish black, lighter on the wing-coverts; all the feathers 

 spotted and bordered with a bright brownish rufous, gradually disap- 

 pearing towards the edge of the wing. Lower wing-coverts white, 

 becoming black at the base. 



" Bill black, sometimes paler at the base of lower mandible ; legs 

 and feet dusky, greenish dusky, yellowish plumbeous or pale plumbe- 

 ous, according, I suppose, to age or seasonal progress. 



"Length. — 11*35 to 12 inches, expanse 23'6 to 24, tail from vent 2'7 

 to 2*8, wing 7'] to 7"3, bill at front 1*6 to 1*85, tarsus 1*4 to 1*55, 

 •wings when closed reach from 0"o to 0'4 beyond end of tail/' 



Hah. — Kurrachee (Sind) and the Beloochistan Coast. Common 

 during winter in the Kurrachee harbour and along the Mekran Coast. 

 Recorded also from Australia and Java. 



Tringa subarquata. G/o«Z(i ; P. E. 851; Fl. Col 610; Gould. B. 

 Eur. pi. 328; id. B. As. pi. 32; Jerdon, Birds hid. iii. p. 689; Str, F. 

 i. 242; vii. 487; Murray, Radhh., ZooL, c^'C, Sind, p. 2i9. — The Cue- 

 lew Stint or Sand-Piper. 



Winter Plumage. — Bill curved downwards. Head, on the crown and 

 sides, back of the neck and nape light greyish brown, streaked with 

 darker brown and dusky black, witli an olivaceous gloss ; face and 

 Bupercilia white, and a dark streak from the gape to the eye ; sides of 

 the neck and in front greyish, streaked with brown ; breast the same ; 

 abdomen and upper and lower tail-coverts white; back, scapulars and 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, the shafts darker; tail ashy grej^ edged with 

 white; primaries dusky brown, also the secondaries, which are tipped 

 with white; axillaries wiiite; lesser coverts grey, the shafts darker. 



Length. — 8 — 10 inches, wing 5, tail 1*75, bill at front 1*6. Bill black; 

 irides brown ; legs dusky grey. In summer plumage the forehead is 

 whitish, mixed with pale reddish brown; supercilia pale yellowish white ; 

 chin white; head, neck and nape ferruginous with dark markings; 

 throat, breast and upper abdomen chestnut ; in a specimen obtained on 

 20th May the feathers are all narrowly edged with white ; back, 

 scapulars and tertiaries black; also the lesser coverts, the feathers 

 edged with chestnut. 



Hah. — India generally, also Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan. 

 Recorded from Cashmere and Egypt, also from Australia and Java. 

 Found commonly along the Sind and Mekran Coasts and on the largo 

 dhurids, not far inland. It occurs in Kutch and Kattiawar and tha 

 Bombay Coast iu some numbers, also in the Kurrachee harbour. 



