298 CHAKADKIID^ 



throat, white ; front of neck and upper breast, washed with 

 reddish-buff, and speckled with dark brown ; lower breast, 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts, white ; face, greyish, 

 with fine streaks of a darker colour ; over the eye is an in- 

 distinct white stripe. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage, but 

 the spots on the breast are less distinct. 



Adult winter, male and female. The back and wings are 

 ash-brown, and the upper breast and throat nearly white. 



Immature, male and female. Closely resembles the adult 

 nuptial plumage, but the buff edgings of the feathers are 

 lighter in shade ; hind-neck, ashy ; no spots on the fore-neck 

 and chest, which are washed with isabelline-buff. 



BEAK. Blackish and straight. 



FEET. Blackish. 



IRIDES. Blackish- brown. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... ... ... 6 in. 



WING 3-55 



BEAK 1 0'8 



TARSO-METATARSUS ... ... 1 ,, 



EGGS 1 X '75 in. 



Allied Species and Representative Forms. T. ruficollis, 

 the breast and neck of which are rich red in the nuptial 

 garb, is found in Eastern Siberia. 



AMERICAN STINT. .Tringa minutilla (Vieillot). 



Coloured Figures. Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. viii, pi. 552, 

 figs. 2, 3 ; Lilford, ' Coloured Figures,' vol. v. pi. 37. 



This species, the smallest of all the Stints, common and 

 widely distributed over the American Continent, is a very 



1 1 have examined several Little Stints, and have not found anything 

 like the range of variation in the length of the beak that there is in that 

 of the Dunlin. 



