342 NOTES ON SOME BiRDS COLLECTED {N THE EASTERN OR 
They feed in company with other Stints of smaller species 
amongst which they are conspicuous by their size. The speci- 
men shot was a male, and measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 11°15; expanse, 23; tail from vent, 2°6 ; wing, 6:9 ; 
tarsus, 1:38; bill from gape, 1:9. 
Trides, dark brown; bill, dusky black, paler at base of lower 
mandible; legs and feet, greenish dusky. 
882.—Tringa subarquata, G'mel. 
This was by no means a common species about the mouth of 
the Rangoon river, where alone I met with it. It was most 
abundant at low water, where it might be seen hunting for food 
in the soft mud close to the water’s edge. At high water it 
was found amongst the fresh water jheels in the neighbourhood 
of Elephant Point. The following is a resumé of the dimensions 
of several species recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 8 to 9°2; expanse, 14°2 to 16:25 ; tail from vent, 
1'8 to 2:2; wing, 4:9 to 5°25; tarsus, 1°18 to 1:25; bill 
from gape, 1:45 to 1°6. 
Irides, dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet, dusky black. 
884.—Tringa minuta, Leisler, 
This little Stint was extremely abundant all along the sea 
coast lying between Elephant Point and China-Ba-keer. It 
seemed, as a rule, to prefer the more sandy part of the shore, 
and did not appear to frequent the mud-banks, for even at low 
water it was always to be found feeding on the sand which was 
bordering the margin of the mud. The following is the result 
of the measurements of numerous specimens recorded in the 
flesh :— 
Length, 5°75 to 65; expanse, 11°75 to 12°5 ; tail from vent, 
1:8 to 2:1; wing, 3°75 to 4; tarsus, 75 to ‘8 ; bill from gape, 
"75 to °85. 
Irides, dark brown; bill, legs, and feet, black. 
With regard to the variations in the size of the wing in birds 
of this species from different localities, Mr. Hume says in 
‘Spray Fearuers,” Vol., 1, p. 243 :— Amongst all my 
Indian killed specimens, male and female, in winter and in sum- 
mer plumage, only one hasa wing above 3'9; in the vast majority 
the wings are between 3°7 and 3°'8 ; and in a few specimens the 
wings range between 3°08 and 3°7, and again in a very few be- 
tween 3°8 and 3:9.” Now out of ten specimens shot by me in 
Burmah, one only is as small as 3°75; two measure 3°8; two, 
3:9; two, 3°92; and the remaining three reach a length of 4. 
Thus it would appear that the Burmese specimens attain a con- 
siderably larger average length of wing than those killed in 
India. 
