770 TRINGA 



of June, the 4 eggs being deposited in a depression in the 

 ground sparingly lined with grass-bents, usually near the sea 

 in some grass-covered swampy place. The eggs vary in ground- 

 colour from pale greenish grey to pale stone-colour or dark 

 stone-buff, and are usually marked with purplish grey shell 

 blotches and dark brown surface spots and blotches; in size 

 they measure about l'29.by O94. 



1066. SUBSP. TRINGA AMERICANA. 



Tringa amerlcana (C. L. Brehm), Vogelfang, p. 317 (1855) ; Cassin, B. N. 

 Am. p. 719 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 608 ; T. alpma 

 (nee. Linn.), Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 334 ; T. pacifica (Coues), 

 P. Acad. N. S. Phil. 1861, p. 89 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 897 ; Ridgway, 

 p. 160. 



ad. Differs from T. alpina in being larger and more brightly 

 coloured, the chin and upper throat pure white, contrasting conspicuously 

 with the black on the lower breast. Culmen T7, wing 4'75, tail 2'25, 

 tarsus 1*1 inch. 



Hob. North America generally; the West Indies in winter; 

 Eastern Siberia north to Kamchatka, south to Japan, Corea, and 

 China, west to the Boganida. 



Is merely a climatic form of .'our European Dunlin, and does 

 not differ from it in habits, food, or nidification. 



1067. LITTLE STINT. 

 TRINGA MINUTA. 



Tringa minuta, Leisl. Nachtrag zu Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. i. p. 74(1811) ; 

 Naum. vii. p. 391, Taf. 184 ; Gould, B. of E. iv. p. 332 ; (id.), B. of 

 Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 72 ; Dresser, viii. p. 29, pis. 549, 550 fig. 1, 552 

 fig. 1 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 538 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 918 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 273 ; Saunders, p. 585 ; 

 Lilford, v. p. 86, pi. 35 ; Poynting, p. 149, pis. 32, 33. 



Be"casseau minute, French ; Chiwrilla minuta, Span. ; Cram- 

 lectio, Ital. ; Kleiner Strandldufer, German ; Kleine Strand- 

 looper, Dutch ; Dvcergryle, Dan. ; Liden Strandvile, Norweg. ; 

 Smdsnappa, Swed. ; Pikkii-sirridinen, Finn. ; Chota-pau-lopa, 

 Hindu. 



$ ad. (Spain). Forehead and cheeks white ; feathers in front of the 

 eye, ear-coverts, and sides of neck rufous mottled with black, and slightly 

 with grey ; upper parts generally black, broadly margined with rufous, 

 and to some extent with whitish ; quills dark greyish brown, primary 



