298 CHARADRITIDA 
throat, white ; front of neck and upper breast, washed with 
reddish-buff, and speckled with dark brown ; lower breast, 
abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts, white ; face, greyish, 
with fine een of a darker colour ; over the eye 1s an in- 
distinct white stripe. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage, but 
the spots on the breast are less distinct. 
Adult winter, male and female.—The back and wings are 
ash-brown, and the upper breast and throat nearly white. 
Immature, male and female.—Closely resembles the adult 
nuptial plumage, but the buff edgings of the feathers are 
lighter in shade; hind-neck, ashy; no spots on the fore-neck 
and chest, which are washed with isabelline-buff. 
Brak. Blackish and straight. 
FEET. Blackish. 
TIripEs. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH ... ae soa — Ove ate 
WING af att es, ae SALT 
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TARSO- -METATARSUS il es 
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Allied Species and Representative Forms.—T. ruficollis, 
the breast and neck of which are rich red in the nuptial 
garb, is found in Eastern Siberia. 
AMERICAN STINT. Tringa minutilla (Vieillot). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 552, 
figs. 2,3; Lilford, ‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. v. pl. 37. 
This species, the smallest of all the Stints, common and 
widely distributed over the American Continent, is a very 
'T have examined several Little Stints, and have not found anything 
like the range of variation in the length of the beak that there is in that 
of the Dunlin. 
