356 TRINGINA. 
pure white ; throat white ; front of neck and breast ashy brown, 
elly and under tail-coverts pure white. 
The White-tailed Stint is somewhat rare in the Deccan, but is 
not uncommon in the remaining portion of our limits. Of course 
it only occurs as a cold weather visitant. 
Genus, Limicola, Kaup. 
Bill broad and depressed. 
Limicola platyrhyncha, Tem. 
886.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 692; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 252. 
THE BROAD-BILLED STINT. 
Length, 625; wing, 39; tail, 1°75; tarsus, 0°75; bill at front, 
dae 
Bill blackish ; irides deep brown; legs dusky. . 
In winter plumage, above ashy-brown, with a rufous tint ; 
cheeks white, spotted with brown; quills brown; tail brown, 
edged with pale reddish-ashy; neck white with brown spots: 
the rest of the lower parts white, tinged with rufous on the sides 
of the breast, the flanks, and under tail-coverts. 
The bill is rather long, broad, and flattened, and slightly bent 
down at the tip. 
In summer the upper plumage is more or less black, edged 
with rufous and buffy-white, the quills with black shafts; the 
breast whitish with black spots and tinged with rufous; the rest 
of the lower surface white. 
The Broad-billed Stint occurs not uncommonly in the Kurra- 
chee Harbour and along the adjacent coast during the cold 
season. 
Genus, Calidris, Cuvier. 
Hind-toe wanting, otherwise as in Tringa ; the web at the base 
of the toes very small. 
Calidris arenaria, Tem. 
888.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 694; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 252. 
THE SANDERLING. 
Length, 8; wing, 4°75; tail, 2; tarsus, 0°9 ; bill at front, 1. 
Bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs black. 
In winter plumage, all the upper parts cinereous, with the 
shafts of the feathers blackish-brown ; forehead and cheeks 
pure white ; head and edge of the wing blackish-grey ; wing- 
coverts broadly edged white ; primaries dusky, with the edges 
and tips brownish ; tail deep grey, the feathers edged with white, 
the two middle ones the darkest, all the lower parts pure white. 
