TRINGA. 131 



Hah. — Nearly throughout Europe and India, also Java, Formosa, Australia 

 and China. In Sind, along the coast ; also in the Kurrachee harbour ; inland 

 on the large pieces of water and on the Munchur Lake, this Little Stint is 

 extremely common, also on the Mekran Coast, the Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, Bengal, Burmah, and Ceylon. Occurs in Persia, Beloochistan (Quetta), 

 Afghanistan, and in fact has a very wide distribution. In the Concan, Deccan 

 and Southern India generally it is equally abundant. 



160. Tringa SUbminuta, Midd., Sib. Reise. Vog. p. 222. Taf., 

 xix. p. 6 ; Legge, B. Ceylofi, p. 889 ; Oates, B. Br. Burnt, ii, p. 391 ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. Tnd. ii. p. 612, No, 1291. Tringa damacensis {Hors/.'), 

 apud Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 243. Tringa salina (Pali.), apud Legge, Str. F. 

 i. p. 491 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii, p. 33; Blyih and Wald., B. Burnt. 

 p. 156. Tringa ruficollis (Pall.), apud. Wald., Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 234; 

 Htnne, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 13; Oa/es, Sir. F. x. p. 24O. — The Long-toed 

 Stint. 



Summer Plumage. — Forehead, top of head and nape dark brown, each 

 feather with an edging of rich rufous on the terminal half ; lores, cheek and 

 ear coverts the same ; an albescent patch in front of the eye above the lores ; 

 upper part of the throat pure white ; lower throat streaked with small marks 

 of pale rufous brown ; sides of throat, neck, upper breast and sides of body 

 pale rufous brown, each feather with a central dark brown streak ; lower 

 breast, abdomen and vent pure white ; under tail coverts white, each feather 

 with a long, narrow central brown streak ; thighs rufescent ; upper neck 

 mixed brown and pale rufous ; whole upper plumage, including the scapulars 

 and tertiaries, rich blackish brown, each feather broadly tipped with bright 

 rufous ; rump and upper tail coverts glossy black, few of the feathers of the 

 latter obsoletely tipped white ; centre tail feathers black, edged with rufous, the 

 others pale brown, tipped and margined internally with white j axillaries 

 white, a little brown at their bases ; under wing coverts pale brown, edged 

 with white ; shaft of first quill sordid whity brown, those of the others dark 

 hair brown ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, all tipped with white 

 except the first six primaries ; all the primaries except the first three with a 

 median narrow margin of white on the outer web ; upper coverts brown, all 

 more or less tipped and margined with dull white. In winter it resembles 

 T. minula in general appearance, but the upper plumage is darker ; the 

 forehead and face where white in T. minuta are streaked with brown in T. 

 suhminuta ; the greater wing coverts and secondaries are very narrowly tipped 

 with white, and the sides of the neck and the chest are thickly marked with 

 brown streaks. Iris brown; bill olive-brown ; legs and toes pale brown ; claws 

 nearly black. 



Length. — 6-2 inches ; tail r4; wing 37; tarsus o'S ; middle toe and claw 

 nearly an inch ; bill from gape 7" 5. The female is of the same size. This 



