TRINGA. 611 



Gen. Eurynorhynchus. NHsson. 



Bill much depressed, broad, flat, -ridged in the centre at the base, and 

 ending in a flat somewhat obcordate, expanded tip, which terminates in a 

 deflected point ; nostrils basal ; toes cleft, with a small web between the outer 

 and middle toes. (Jerd.) 



1289. Eurynorhynchus pygmaeus (Linn.), Harting, Ibis, 



1869, p. 427, pi. xii. ; Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 156; Dav. et Oust, Ois. Chine, 

 p. 474 ; Hume and Dav.) Sir. F. vi. p. 463; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 113; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burnt, ii. p. 395. Platalea pygmsea, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 231. 

 Eurynorhynchus griseus (Niks.), Temm., Man d' Orn. ii. p. 594 ; Jerd. t B. 

 Ind. iii. p. 693, No. 887. The SPOON-BILLED STINT. 



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' I ; tail 17 ; 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. 



Hab. Arracan, Pegu, Tenasserim, and the mouth of the Ganges, usually 

 found in the company of other Stints. 



Gen. Tringa. Linn. 



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

 slightly bent and obtuse at the extremity. 



1290- Tringa minuta, Leisl. Nacht., zu Bechst. Naturg. Deutsch i. 

 P. 745 Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 690, No. 884; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 29, pi.; 

 Hume, Str. F. i. p. 242; Legge, Sir. F.\. p. 491; id., B. Ceylon, p. 884; 

 Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 257 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 389. 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 



