612 SCOLOPACID^, 



dark spot in front of the eye, and a pale white supercilium ; the chin, throat, 

 Centre of the breast and rest of the under Surface, including the vent, axillaries 

 and under tail coverts, are white ; sides of the breast ashy brown ; primaries 

 mostly white shafted, dusky brown, slightly paler on their inner webs ,' secon- 

 daries white, basally and also narrowly tipped with white ; greater wing coverts 

 tipped with white, forming a conspicuous wing band ; rump, upper tail coverts 

 and two central tail feathers dusky or dark brown j lateral tail feathers pale 

 ashy. 



Length. &6 inches; expanse 13*1 ; tail 2-3; tarsus 0*9; wing 3-8; bill 

 at front O'6 ; irides deep brown ; legs black. 



Hal. Nearly throughout Europe and India, also Java, Formosa, Australia 

 and China. In Sind, along the coast j 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. 



1291. Tringa SUbminuta, Midd., Sib. Reise. Vog. p. 222. Ta/., 

 xix. p. 6 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 889 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 391. Tringa 

 damacensis (Horsf.), apud Hume, Str. F. i. p. 243. Tringa salina (Pall.), 

 apud Legge, Str. F. i. p. 491 ; Dresser, B.Eur. viii. p. 33; Blyth and 

 Wald., B. Burm., p. 156. Tringa ruficollis (Pall.), apud. Wald. Trans. Zool. 

 Soc.ix.p. 234; Hume, Str.F.vm. p. 113; Gates, Str. F. x. p. 240. -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; 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 



