262 TRTNGIN^. 



Upper parts as in minuta ; cliin, throat and supercilia white ; a dark 

 spot in front of the eye; breast and lower ueckasby brown ; belly, vent 

 and under tail -coverts white ; four central tail feathers dusky brown, 

 the rest white ; legs pale horny green, or greenish olive. 



Lenyth. — 6 to 6*25 inches, wing 3-8, bill at front 0*7, irides deep 

 brown. 



Hab. — As the last, and associated with it evei-ywhere. 



Limicola platyrhynchaj Tem. ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 331 ; G. It. 



Gr. and 31. G. B. pi. 156, 2 ; Jerd. B. hid. iii. p. 092; Str. F. i. 246 ; 

 Murray^ Hdbk., ZooL, 8fc., Sind, p. 220. — The Bkoad-billed Stint. 



In winter, the crown of the head, back, scapulars and wing-coverts are 

 ashy brown, tinged with rufous ; neck and cheeks white, spotted with 

 brown; primaries and tail brown, the latter edged with pale reddish ashy; 

 lower parts white ; the flanks, breast and under tail-coverts tinged with 

 rufous. In summer dress the Broad-billed Stint has the crown of the 

 head brownish black, varied with greyish ; the neck on the sides and in 

 front greyish white, with black spots, and tinged with bufly ; chin white, 

 with a few dark spots ; lower back black with fulvous white or rufous 

 margins to the feathers. 



Length.~6-b to 6-75 inches, wing 3-9 to 4-32, bill at front 1-27 to 

 1"37, tarsi 0"94 ; irides deep brown, legs and feet dusky black. 



Hab. — The Indian Coast generally. Occurs commonly at Kurrache© 

 and along the Mekran Coast, also at Kutch, and in Bengal. 



Gen. Csilidris.—Cuv. 



Hind toe wanting, otherwise as in Tringa. 



Calidris arenaria, Lui. ; Wils. Amer. Dm. pi. 59,4, 63,3; Gould. 

 B. Eur. pi. 335; Jenl. B. Ind. iii. p. 694; 8tr. F. vol. i. 244; iv. 343, 

 465; Murray, lldbJc, ZooL, <$■€., Sind, p. 221. — The Sanderling. 



In winter the forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, neck in 

 front, belly, thighs, vent and under tail-coverts white; crown of the 

 head, sides of the neck and breast, back and scapulars cinereous or 

 ashy brown, the feathers with dark shafts ; shoulders and edge of 

 the wing dark brown ; median and greater coverts like the back, 

 dark shafted and tipped white ; primaries dark brown, all white 

 shafted; their inner webs ashy, and the four middle ones white on their 

 outer webs, forming in the closed wing a wedge-shaped spot; secondaries 

 brown or dusky, tipped with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts brown, 

 edged with white ; tail brownish ash, edged with white, the two 

 central feathers darker than the rest; bill black, 0' 93 to 1 inch in 

 length. 



Length. — 7*5, wing 4' 75, tail 2, tarsus 0*92 ; irides deep brown, legs 

 black. 



Hab. — Kurrachee (Sind) Beloochistan Coast, Persia ; Kutch, Guzerat, 

 Concan and South India, also the Laccadives, the West Coast and 

 the Irrawady Delta. In the Kurrachee harbour extremely abundant, 

 associated with the Stints on the sea shore. 



