TRINGA. 613 



more or less tipped and margined with dull white. In winter it resembles 

 T. minuta in general appearance, but the upper plumage is darker ; the 

 forehead and face where white in T. minuta are streaked with brown in T. 

 subminuta ; the greater wing coverts and secondaries are very narrowly tipped 

 with white, and the sides of the neck and the chest are thickly marked with 

 brown streaks. Iris brown ; bill olive-brown ; legs and toes pale brown ; claws 

 nearly black. 



Length. 6-2 inches; tail 1*4 j wing 37 ; tarsus 0*8 ; middle toe and claw- 

 nearly an inch; bill from gape 7-5. The female is of the same size. This 

 Stint may be recognized by the great length of its toes, the middle one, 

 including its claw, measuring frequently little short of an inch in length. It 

 resembles T. minuta in having the outer tail feathers brown, but differs in 

 having the shafts of all the primaries brown, except that of the first qtiill, 

 which is dull white. From T. Temmincki it may be separated by the colour 

 of its outer tail feathers as well as by its long toes. (Oates.) 



Hab. Arracan, Pegu and Tenasserim. Found also seasonally in N.-E, 

 Siberia through China and Mongolia to Burmah, extending on the west to 

 Bengal, the Eastern Coast of India and Ceylon, and ranging southwards to 

 the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Celebes, and the Phillipines. 



1292. Tringa Temmincki, Leishr, Nacht. '* Bechst. Naturg. 

 Deutsch.i. p. 63 ; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 691 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 45, pi.; 

 Hume, Str. F. i. p. 244; iii. p. 183; Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 156; David et 

 Oust. Ois, Chine, p. 43 ; Hume andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 461 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 113 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 892 ; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 251 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 392. TEMMINCK'S, or the WHITE-TAILED STINT. 



Upper parts as in minuta ; chin, throat and supercilia white ; a dark spot 

 in front of the eye ; breast and lower neck ashy brown ; belly, vent and under 

 tail coverts white ; four central tail feathers dusky brown, the rest white ; legs 

 pale horny green, or greenish olive. 



Length. 6 to 6*25 ; inches ; wing 3*8 ; bill at front 0*7 ; irides deep brown. 



Hab. As the last and associated with it everywhere. 



1293. Tringa crassirOStriS, Temm. et Schleg., Faun. Jap., Aves, 

 p. 107, pi. Ixiv. ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 240 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 325 ; 



Wald., Ibis, 1874, p. 147; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 341; David et Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 468; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 113; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 

 p. 249 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 240 ; id., JB. Br. Burm. ii. p. 393. -The THICK- 

 BILLED STINT. 



The following is Mr. Hume's description of the species. 



" In the winter plumage the upper surface reminds one not a little of that 

 of Totanus stagnatilis. The whole lower parts are white, but the base of the 

 neck in front and the sides are marked with numerous small brown stride, and 



