TRINGIN&. 355 
THE DUNLIN. 
Length, 7°5 ; wing, 4°5; tail, 1:9; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 1:25. 
Bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs greenish-dusky. 
In winter plumage, above, with the lores and cheeks ashy- 
brown, the shafts of the feathers dark, and those of the upper 
parts edged paler ; supercilia and sides of the forehead whitish- 
ashy; lesser and median-coverts brown, edged with ashy ; quills 
deep brown, with a pale edging; middle tail-feathers dark-brown, 
the laterals ashy and edged with white; throat white; breast 
whitish-ashy with a few brown streaks; abdomen and under tail- 
coverts pure white. 
In summer the head is black, the upper plumage much mixed 
with ferruginous and brown ; the abdomen pure black ; and the 
breast white and spotted. 
The Dunlin occurs as a fairly common cold weather visitant to 
the Kurrachee Harbour. 
Tringa minuta, Levsl. 
884.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 690; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 17; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 251 ; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
THE LItTLe STINT. 
Length, 6 ; wing, 3°8 ; tail, 15; tarsus, 0-9; bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs black. 
All the upper parts ashy-brown, the shafts dusky; a broad 
streak from the gape to the eye, and a whitish supercilium ; the 
two central tail-feathers brown, the outer ones ashy-brown, edged 
with whitish ; throat, foreneck, middle of the breast, and all the 
under parts pure white ; the sides of the breast ashy-brown. 
In summer, the head, and upper parts, with the two central 
tail-feathers become black, broadly edged and tipped with rufous 
brown ; and the cheeks, sides of neck, and breast reddish. 
The Little Stint is more or less common in suitable localities 
throughout the district. It only occurs as a cold weather 
visitant. 
Tringa temmincki, Levsl. 
885.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 691; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 17; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 429 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 251. 
THE WHITE-TAILED STINT. 
Length, 6 to 6:25; wing, 3°8; tail, 1:9; tarsus, 0°75; bill at 
front, 0°7. 
Bill black, irides deep brown ; legs blackish. 
In winter plumage, all the upper parts brown, with dusky 
streaks in the centres of the feathers, the four central tail-feathers 
ashy-brown, the others whitish, and the two outermost ones 
