TEINGA. 439 



Plates. — Midden dorff, Reise in Nord. u. Ost. Sibir. ii. pi. xix. fig. 6. Literature. 



Habits. — Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 889. 

 Eggs. — Unknown . 



characters. 



Middendorff's Stint may be diagnosed from all its congeners (except from the Specific 

 American Stint, which appears to be only subspecifically distinct from it) by the following characters, 

 characters : wing less than four inches (measured from the carpal joint) ; legs and toes pale 

 brown, outer tail-feathers grey. 



Middendorff's Stint has a slightly larger foot than the American Stint, but is not Subspecific 

 known to differ from it in any other respect. 



T. subminuta. 

 in. in. 



Tarsus -9 to -8 



Middle toe and claw . "95 to 'So 

 Wing 3 7 to 3-3.5 



Middendorff's Stint breeds on Behring Island and on the shores of the Sea of Geographi- 

 Okhotsk, but as it passes through the basin of Lake Baikal on migration it probably also ^^^ ^^ " ^^' 

 breeds in the valley of the Lena below the Arctic Circle. It has also been recorded from 

 the valley of the Amoor, and the coasts of Japan and China on migration, and examples 

 have been obtained in winter from the islands of the Malay Archipelago, India, Burma, 

 and Ceylon. 



TRINGA SUBMINUTA MINUTILLA. 



AMERICAN STINT. 

 Tringa subminuta pedibus parvis (digitus medius cum ungue 30^ ad 21^ millim.). Diagnosis. 



Middendorff's Stint and the American Stint appear completely to intergrade. Variations. 



Tringa minutilla, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 452 (1819). Synonymy. 



Tringa wilsoni, Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 121 (1834). 

 Pelidna nana, Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 92 (1854). 



Actodromas minutilla (FieiZ/.),") . t, j v cne mok^n 



. ^,; . \Bonap. Compt. Rend. xlm. p. 596 (1856). 

 Actodromas wilsoni (Nutt.), J 



Tringa pusilla, Linn., apud Wilson, Audubon, Bonaparte, Swainson ^ Richardson, Gray, ^c. 



