278 CHA.RAD11HD /E. 



Australia. In India and Burma it has only been observed in 

 winter on or near the sea-coast at Gwadar in Baluchistan, Karachi, 

 and the Laccadive Islands by Hume, at Akyab by Gates, at the 

 mouth of the Hangoon river by Armstrong, and on South Andaman 

 by Wardlaw Ramsay ; but if. as is almost certain, this was the 

 bird identified by Jerdon and Blyth with T. canutus, it has also 

 been obtained at Madras and in Calcutta. 



1477. Tringa subarquata. The Curlew Stint or Pigmy Curlew. 



Scolopax subarquata, G'tildenst. Nov. Com. Petroj). xix, p. 471 (1775). 



Tringa subarquata, Blyth, Cat. p. 209; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 689; 

 Hume $ Headers. Lah to Yark. p. 288 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 242 ; 

 ii, p. 297 ; Adam, S. F. i, p. 396 ; ii, p. 339 ; Blyth, Birds Burm. 

 p. 156 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 342 ; Cockburn, ibid. p. 510 : Hume 

 $ Dar. S. F. vi, p. 460 ; Davids. # Wend. S. F. vii,p. 89 ;' Hume, 

 ibid. p. 487 ; id. Cat. no. 882 ; Leaye, Birch Guy 1. p. 879 ; Vidal, 

 8. F. ix, p. 85 ; Butler, ibid. p. 429 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 96 ; 

 1882, p. 288 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 70 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 354 ; 

 Seebohm, Charadr. p. 419. 



Pelidna subarquata, Gates, B. B. ii, p. 394. 



Aucylochilus subavquatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 586. 



Fig. 64. Head of T. subarquata. ]. 



Coloration in winter. Broad supercilia, generally meeting across 

 forehead, white ; lores, sides of head and neck brownish, streaked 

 darker ; upper plumage ashy brown, with more or less distinct 

 dark shaft-stripes ; wing-coverts with light edges, greater coverts 

 tipped with white ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, primaries, and 

 secondaries dark brown ; outer webs of later primaries and of all 

 secondaries with a white border; secondaries white at the base, the 

 amount of white increasing on the inner secondaries ; lower back 

 and middle of rump dark brown, the feathers \vith a pale or white 

 edge ; sides of rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail ashy brown ; 

 lower parts and axillaries white; fore neck and upper breast 

 brownish, streaked with dark brown. 



In summer the crown, neck, back, and scapulars are rich rufous, 

 with black centres to the feathers ; both upper and lower tail- 

 coverts with large black spots ; the lower parts chestnut with hoary 

 edges to the feathers, especially on the abdomen. 



Younrr birds have the feathers of the upper plumage fringed 

 with butt or whitish, the lower surface nearly uniform buff. 



Bill black ; irides brown : legs dusky grey (Jerdon). 



Length 8*5 : tail 1-75 ; wing 5 ; tarsus 1*2 ; bill from gape 1'5. 



