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Tringa, but of these three have pale legs and feet, and one has a shovel-shaped bill. The 

 remaining two are the Eastern and Western forms of the Little Stint. 



TRINGA MINUTA RUFICOLLIS. 



BED-THROATED STINT. (Plate XV.) 



Tringa minuta in ptil. sestiv. gutture castaneo : in ptil. hiem. hand a Tringa minuta typica Diagnosis, 

 distinguenda. 



It is believed that the Red-throated and Little Stints completely intergrade in summer Variations. 

 plumage. They are indistinguishable in vi^inter plumage. 



? Tringa albescens^, Temminck, PI. Col. no. 41 (1823). 

 Trynga ruficollis, Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 700 (1776). 



Synonymy. 



' Tringa albescens of Temminck appears to be a composite species : " les deux pennes laterales de la queue 

 sont blanches" can only apply to T. temmincJn, but " toutes les parties inferieures sont d'un roussatre-clair" 

 cannot possibly apply to that species, and is a gross exaggeration ■when applied to T. mimda rvficollis. 



