B04 TRINGIN&. 
primaries and their greater-coverts are hair-brown, most of the 
latter tipped white ; the secondaries and their greater-coverts are 
a pale somewhat greyish-brown, all of them narrowly, but the 
coverts less narrowly of the two, margined with white; the 
wing-lining (except just at the margin of the wing which is 
mottled with brown), pure white; the axillaries white with 
traces of irregular, wavy, pale brown bars; there are a few 
elongated triangular pale brown dashes on the flanks, and 
in some specimens one or two larger blackish-brown spots pertain- 
ing to the summer plumage. 
According to Schlegel, the summer plumage is as follows :— 
Feathers of the head and neck, each with a large dark-brown 
longitudinal. streak or spot onan 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 brown-spots. 
Back and wings brownish-black, lighter on the wing-coverts ; 
all the feathers spotted and bordered with a bright brownish- 
rufous, gradually’ disappearing towards the edge of the wing. 
Lower wing-coverts white, becoming black at the base.—Hwme, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. 1, p. 240. 
This species was found by Mr. Hume to be not uncommon in 
the Kurrachee Harbour during the cold season. 
Tringa subarquata, Gm. 
882.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IT, p. 689; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 250. 
THE CURLEW STINT. 
Length, 8; wing, 5; tail, 1°75; tarsus, 116; bill at front, 1°6. 
Bill black ; irides brown; legs dusky-grey. 
In winter plumage, the face and supercilium white; a brown 
streak from the gape to the eye; upper part of head, back, 
scapulars, and wing-coverts, ashy-brown, the shafts of the feathers 
somewhat darker; feathers of the nape streaked with brown, 
and edged whitish; upper tail-coverts white; tail ashy-grey, 
edged with white; throat and beneath pure white ; the feathers 
of the neck in front and of the breast streaked with pale 
brown. 
The Curlew Stint is common during the cold weather along 
the sea coast, but does not seem to penetrate far inland. It has 
been procured at Sholapore. 
Tringa alpina, Zzn. 
883.—T. einclus, Lin.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 690; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 251. 
