130 SCOLOPACID^. 



In summer the head and upper parts are ferruginous, the feathers with 

 dark brown centres ; breast ferruginous ; throat and breast margined with 

 white ; under surface of the body from below the breast becoming whiter 

 towards the tail; primaries dark brown; legs and feet black; bill black; 

 irides deep brown. 



Length. — 6*5 to 67 inches ; wing 4*1 ; tail 1*7 ; tarsus o*8 ; bill from gape i. 



In winter plumage the forehead, crown and hind neck, white ; back and scapu- 

 lars are hair brown, each feather with a darker shaft streak ; lores ashy white; 

 cheeks, ear coverts and sides of the neck whitish, streaked with brown ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts dusky brown, the feathers edged paler ; tail brown, the 

 inner webs of all the feathers except the central pair white ; shafts of the 

 lateral feathers whitish ; lesser wing coverts uniform hair brown ; median and 

 greater coverts dark brown, broadly edged with white ; quills dark brown, with 

 white shafts ; under surface of the body, including the axiliaries and under 

 wing coverts, white ; the sides of the breast streaked with brown. 



Length. — 6-5 inches ; wing 37; tail 1*5. 



Hob. — Arracan, Pegu, Tenasserim, and the mouth of the Ganges, usually 

 found in the company of other Stints. 



Gen. Tringa. — Lmn. 



Toes edged by membrane ; wings with the first quill longest ; bill straight or 

 slightly bent and obtuse at the extremity. 



159. Tringa minuta, Leisl,, Nacht. zu Beckst. Naturg. Deutsch i. 

 p. 74; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 690, No, 884; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 29, pi.; 

 Huvie, Str. F. i. p. 242; Legge, Str. F.\. p. 49^ ; ^d-> B- Ceylon, p. 884; 

 Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sttid, p. 257 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 389 ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 611, No. 1290. — The Little Stint. 



In winter the upper parts are ashy or pale earthy brown, the feathers of the 

 back, scapulars, tertials and lesser and median wing coverts mesially dusky 

 or dark brown, and in some very narrowly edged with whitish. There is a 

 dark spot in front of the eye, and a pale white supercilium ; the chin, throat, 

 centre of the breast and rest of the under surface, including the vent, axiliaries 

 and under tail coverts, are white ; sides of the breast ashy brown ; primaries 

 mostly white shafted, dusky brown, slightly paler on their inner webs ; secon- 

 daries white, basally and also narrowly tipped with white ; greater wing coverts 

 tipped with white, forming a conspicuous wing band ; rump, upper tail coverts 

 and two central tail feathers dusky or dark brown ; lateral tail feathers pale 

 ashy. 



Length. — 6'6 inches; expanse 13*1 ; tail 2"3; tarsus 0*9; wing 3'8 ; bill 

 at front 0'6; irides deep brown; legs black. 



