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733. TRINGA SUBMINUTA. 



THE LONG-TOED STINT. 



Tringa subminuta, Midd. Sib. Reise, Vog. p. 222, Taf. xix. f. (3 ; Let/ge, Birds 

 Ceylon, p. 889. Tringa damacensis (Harsf.), pwl ///,//.. \ F. i. p. 243, iii. 

 p. 182. Tringa salina (7W/.), u/md Lef/ye, tf. F. i. p. 491 ; Dresser, Jiifd* Eur. 

 viii. p. 33; Bl. $ Wald. B. Burin, p. loO. Actodromas salina (Pall.), ,i,md 

 Halntd. Ucc. Born. p. 324. Tringa ruficollis (Pall.), a L md Wald. Trans. '/<><,!. 

 Soc. ix. p. 234 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 472; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 461 ; 

 Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113; Gates, S. F. x. p. 240. 



Description. Summer plumage. Forehead, top of head and nape dark 

 brown, each feather with an edging of rich rufous on the terminal half; 

 lores, cheeks and ear-coverts the same ; an albescent patch in front of the 

 eye above the lores ; the upper part of the throat pure white ; lower throat 

 streaked with small marks of pale rufous-brown; sides of throat, the 

 neck, upper breast and sides of body pale rufous-brown, each feather with 

 a central dark brown streak ; the rufous more pronounced on the neck 

 than elsewhere ; 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, a 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, with 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 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 secon- 

 daries 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, wing 3*7, tarsus '8, middle toe and claw 

 nearly an inch, bill from gape '75. 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. 



