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1473. Tringa subminuta. The Long -toed Stint. 



Tringa subminuta, Middendorff, Reis. Sibir., Zool., Sauqth. Voq. $c. 



p. 222, pi. xix, fig. G (foot) (1851) ; Jet-don, B. I. iii, p. 875 ; Legge, 



Birds Ceyl p. 889 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 391 ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 438. 

 Tringa damacensis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 168 ; Hume, 8. F. i, p. 242. 

 Tringa salina, apud Holdsworth, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 474; Leqge, S. F. 



i, p. 491 ; Blylh $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 156. 

 Tringa ruficollis, apud Hume fy Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 461 ; Ball, 8. F. vii, 



p. 228 ; Hume, ibid. p. 487 ; id. Cat. no. 884 bis ; id. 6'. F. xi, p. 323. 

 Limonites damacensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 553. 



Coloration in winter. Upper parts dark brown, the feathers 

 with light brown edges, a dark streak through the lores to the 

 eye, and a pale greyish superciliary band ; sides of head arid neck 

 light greyish brown, streaked darker ; quills dark brown, scarcely 

 any white on the secondaries and narrow tips on the greater 

 coverts; shafts of 1st primary whitish in parts, those of other 

 primaries brown ; lower back, middle of rump and of upper tail- 

 coverts, and middle tail-feathers blackish ; sides of rump and lateral 

 tail-coverts white, outer tail-feathers greyish brown ; chin, throat, 

 abdomen, and lower tail-coverts white ; fore neck and breast pale 

 greyish brown with dark shaft-stripes. 



In summer the feathers of the upper parts are broadly edged 

 with rufous, and there is a slight rufous tinge on the fore neck and 

 breast, as in T. minuta. 



Bill olive-brown ; iris brown ; legs and toes pale brown (Oates} ; 

 legs and feet yellowish olivaceous (Lfgge). 



Length 6 ; tail 1-5 ; wing 3'7 ; tarsus -8 ; mid-toe and claw -9 

 to 1 ; bill from gape '75. 



Distribution. Eastern Siberia in summer, S.E. Asia to Australia 

 in winter. Common at that season in Burma, Bengal, and Ceylon, 

 and prrobably occurring throughout ths Eastern halt of the Indian 

 Peninsula. 



.Habits, $c. The Long-toed Stint occurs, like T. minuta, in flocks 

 during the winter, but is, according to both Legge and Gates, even 

 more of a marsh-loving bird than that species, its long toes 

 evidently enabling it to run over soft mud. Hume found these 

 two Stints to be brought in about equal numbers to the bazaar in 

 Calcutta. 



1474. Tringa temmincki. Temminclc's Stint. 



p. 233 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 461 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 228 ; 

 Hume, ibid. p. 487 ; Anders. Yunnan E^ped., Aves, p. 680 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 885 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 357 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 892 ; 

 Hume fy Inylis, S. F. ix, p. 258 ; Butler, ibid. p. 429 ; Bidaulph 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 96; 1882, p. 288; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 589; Ibid 

 S. F. x, p. 70 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 321 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 392 ; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 355 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 323 ; Seebohm, 

 Charadr. p. 434; Sharj^e, Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 143. 



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