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TEINGA. 



Tringa salina, Pallas, Zooffr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 199 (1826). 



Calidris albescens {Temm.), Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 526 (1829). 



Tringa australis, Lesson, Trait& d'Orn. p. 558 (1831). 



Scboeniclus albescens {Temm.), Gould, Birds Australia, vi. pi. 31 (1848). 



Actodromas albescens [Temm.), U^^^^_ ^^^^^_ ^^^^_ ^^.j._ ^^ ggg ^^ggg^ 



Actodromas australis {Less.), > 



Tringa minuta ruficolUs {Temm.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 205. 



Literature. Plates. — Previously unfigured. 



Habits. — Unrecorded. 

 Eggs. — Undescribed. 



The differences between the Little Stint and the Red-throated Stint or Eastern form 

 of the Little Stint have already been pointed out. 



The Red-throated Stint breeds in Eastern Siberia. It was originally described by 

 Geograpni- i • i j r i.r, 



cal distribu- Pallas from Dauria, and was probably the species found breeding on the islands ot the 



delta of the Lena by Dr. Bunge (Seebohm, Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. iv. p. 303). 



It was observed by Stejneger passing Behring Island late in May, and Middendorff found 



it during the first half of July on the southern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk. It passes 



Lake Baikal, Japan, and China on migration, and winters in the Malay Archipelago and 



Australia. 



tiou. 



TRINGA SUBMINUTA. 



MIDBBNDORFF 8 STINT. 



Diagnosis. Tringa magnitudine parvfi, (alse quam 100 millim. breviores) : pedibus pallidis : rectricibus laterali- 

 bus fuscis. 



Variations. The American form of this species has on an average a smaller foot than the Siberian form 

 and may be regarded as sub specifically distinct. 



Synonymy. ? Totanus damacensis, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 



Tringa subminuta, Middendorff, Reise in Nord. und Ost. Sibir. ii. p. 222 (1853). 

 Actodromas subminuta {Midd.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 596 (1856) . 

 Tringa damacensis {Horsf.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863^ p. 413. 



