354 TRINGIX^E. 



primaries and their greater-coverts are hair-brown, most of the 

 latter tipped white ; the secondaries and their greater-coverts are 

 a pale somewhat greyish-brown, all of them narrowly, but the 

 coverts less narrowly of the two, margined with white ; the 

 wing-lining (except just at the margin of the wing which is 

 mottled with brown), pure white ; the axillaries white with 

 traces of irregular, wavy, pale brown bars ; there are a few 

 elongated triangular pale brown dashes on the flanks, and 

 in some specimens one or two larger blackish-brown spots pertain- 

 ing to the summer plumage. 



According to Schlegel, the summer plumage is as follows : 



Feathers of the head and neck, each with a large dark-brown 

 longitudinal streak or spot on an albescent ground, which is 

 tinged with brownish-rufous on the nape. Feathers of the breast 

 and nape, brownish-black, each with a whitish transverse band 

 about the middle, often tinged with brownish-red towards the 

 middle. The rest of the lower parts and the rump pure white, 

 spotted, except towards the middle of the abdomen, with broader 

 or narrower dark brown-spots. 



Back and wings brownish-black, lighter on the wing-coverts ; 

 all the feathers spotted and bordered with a bright brownish - 

 rufous, gradually disappearing towards the edge of the wing. 

 Lower wing-coverts white, becoming black at the base. Hume, 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. 1, p. 240. 



This species was found by Mr. Hume to be not uncommon in 

 the Kurrachee Harbour during the cold season. 



Tringa subarquata, Gm. 



882. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 689 ; Butler, Deccan ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 429 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology 



of Sind, p. 250. 



THE CURLEW STINT. 



Length, 8 ; wing, 5 ; tail, 175 ; tarsus, 116 ; bill at front, 1'6. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs dusky-grey. 



In winter plumage, the face and supercilium white ; a brown 

 streak from the gape to the eye ; upper part of head, back, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts, ashy-brown, the shafts of the feathers 

 somewhat darker ; feathers of the nape streaked with brown, 

 and edged whitish ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail ashy-grey, 

 edged with white ; throat and beneath pure white ; the feathers 

 of the neck in front and of the breast streaked with pale 

 brown. 



The Curlew Stint is common during the cold weather along 

 the sea coast, but does not seem to penetrate far inland. It has 

 been procured at Sholapore. 



Tringa alpina, Lin. 



883. T. cindus, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p, 690 ; 

 Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 251. 



