280 CHAHADIUIDJE. 



Hume, S. F. \, p. 244 ; ii, p. 298 ; Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 156 ; 



Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 343 ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 433. 

 Tringa pygmaea, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 168. 

 Limicola sibirica, Dresser, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 674 ; Hume, S. F. v, 



p. 344 ; id. Cat. no. 886 bis. 

 Limicola platyrhyncha, Hnme $ Dav. S, F. vi, p. 461 ; Hume, S. F. 



vii, p. 487 ; id" Cat. no. 886 ; Legge, Birds Ceijl. p. 89d ; Oatei, 



B. B. ii, p. 387; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 356; toharpe, Cat. B. M. 



xxiv, p. 612. 



Coloration in winter very similar to that of T. subaryuata and 

 T. alpina; as in the latter, the rmp, upper tail-coverts, and 

 middle tail-feathers are blackish brown ; the dark shaft-stripes 

 on the upper plumage are broad and ill-defined, and there is not 

 much white on the secondaries. The white stipercilia do not meet 

 across the forehead. The lower parts are white throughout, and 

 only a few narrow dark streaks occur on the fore neck and upper 

 breast. 



In summer the upper parts are black, Avith narrow dull rufous 

 or \vhitish fringes to the feathers ; crown nearly all black or with 

 a few buff spots towards each side ; tertiaries with narrow rufous 

 borders ; middle pair of rectrices each with a rufous margin to 

 1he outer web; throat, fore neck, sides of neck, and upper breast 

 tinged with rufescent and thickly spotted with dark brown. 



Bill brow r n, tinged with olive ; irides dark brown ; legs olive- 

 brown (Oates). 



Length 7 ; tail 1'5 ; wing 4*1 ; tarsus '9 ; bill from gape 1*3. 



Distribution. The breeding quarters of this Stint are in the north 

 of Europe and Asia ; but in winter it migrates to the shores of 

 the Mediterranean and of Southern Asia. It is found on many 

 parts of the Indian, Ceylonese, and Burmese coasts, but is locally 

 distributed, the only places where it has been found to be common 

 being Smd and Pegu, near the mouths of the Indus and the 

 Irrawaddy. An Eastern race has been separated by Dresser as 

 Limicola sibirica (P. Z. S. 1876, p. 674), on account of the feathers 

 of the crown and upper parts having broad rufous edges in summer ; 

 but there is no difference in winter, and it appears doubtful 

 whether the distinction is sufficient. 



Habits, fyc. The Broad-billed Stint appears to be even more 

 restricted to the sea-coast and salt-water inlets and estuaries than 

 other members of the genus. It is found in small parties, usually 

 associating with other Stints, &c. 



Genus PHALAROPUS, Brisson, 1760. 



Anterior toes bordered throughout by a web cut into lobes, as 

 in Coots and Grebes. In other respects the present genus does 

 not differ materially from Tringa and its allies. By many natu- 

 ralists the Phalaropes are made into a separate subfamily, and 

 they have some claim to the distinction ; but they are after all 

 only modified Sandpipers, although, unlike those shore-birds, they 

 are found swimming in the open sea, sometimes even out of sight 



