274 CIIAIIADRIID.*:. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs and feet deep leaden, in some with 

 the middle of the tarsus pale and greenish (Legye). 



Length 6 ; tail 1-5 ; wing 3'75 ; tarsus -8 ; middle toe and claw 

 75 ; bill to gape -7. 



Distribution. The Little Stint breeds in Northern Europe and 

 Siberia, and migrates in winter to Africa and Southern Asia. At 

 that season it abounds in all well-watered parts of India, and it is 

 equally abundant in Ceylon ; but it appears to be replaced by the 

 next species east of the Bay of Bengal. 



Habits, fyc. This little wader is usually found in India in flocks 

 and feeds in marshy ground, in rice-fields, and on the edges of tanks, 

 rivers, estuaries, &c., or on the sea-shore. It arrives in India in 

 August or September, and leaves usually in May. 



1472. Tringa ruficollis. The Eastern Little Stint. 



Trynga ruficollis, Pall, Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii, p. 700 (1776). 

 Trynga salina, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii, p. 199 (1811). 

 Totanus damacensis, pt., Horsf. Tr. Linn. &ov. xiii, p. 192 (1821). 

 Tringa albescens, Temm. Pt. Col. pi. 41, fig. 2 (182.,) ; R. Swinhoe, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 420; Walden, Ibis, 1878, p. 317 ; Lerjge, S. F. iii, 



p. 265 ; Hume, Cat. no. 884 ter. 

 Tringa minuta, apud Hume, S. F. ii. p. 298 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, 



p. 342 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 461 : nee Linn. 

 Tringa ruficollis, Gates, B. S. ii, p. 390. 

 Tringa minuta ruficollis, Seebohm, Charadr. p. 437, pi. xv. 

 Limonites ruficollis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 545. 



In winter this Stint cannot be distinguished from the preceding 

 by its plumage. It is, however, a larger bird, with a shorter, 

 stouter, and blacker tarsus. The \\ing is generally more than 

 3'9 long, and the tarsus rarely exceeds *75. Some Burmese birds 

 appear to be of intermediate si/e. 



In summer the sides of the face, the throat, sides, and front of 

 the neck and upper breast are rich ferruginous red, the chin alone 

 remaining whita. The plumage elsewhere resembles that of 

 T. minuia. 



Bill, legs, and feet black ; irides dark bro\vn (Armstrong). 



Length 6-25 ; tail 1'7 ; wing 4 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape '8. 



Distribution. Eastern Siberia in summer, Japan, China, and S.E. 

 Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, and Australia in winter. This is 

 the species common in suitable localities throughout Burma and in 

 the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but only occasional specimens 

 appear to be found in India, west of the Bay of Bengal. 



Dr. Sharpe has examined the two type-specimens of Horsfield's 

 Totanus damaqensis, and finds that one belongs to the present 

 species and one to T. subminuta ; but the words in Horsfield's 

 brief description, " rachidibus primorum albis " (shafts of the 

 primaries white), are applicable to T. riificollis only. 



