TRINGINiE. 



tip which terminates in a minute point slightly turned down; nostrils 

 at the basal end of a moderate groove ; feet moderate ; toes well 

 cleft, with a very small web between the outer and middle toes. 

 Plumage, wings, and general form, as in Tringa. 



887. Eurinorhynchus griseus, Linnaeus. 



Platalea, apud Linnaeus — Trans. Asiat. Soc. pi. — Blyth, 

 Cat. 1599— E. orientalis, Blyth, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1843— E. 

 griseus, Nilsson — Gray, 111. Genera of Birds, pi. 152, f. 1. 



The Spoon-billed Stint. 



Descr. — Ashy-grey above, more or less shaded with brown, and 

 the feathers tipped whitish ; the feathers of the head, back of 

 neck, upper back, and wing-coverts dark in the centre with 

 whitish tips ; forehead white ; upper tail-coverts dark with the 

 shafts white, except at the tip, which is black ; tail with the 

 medial feathers dark on the inner web, paler on the outer web, and 

 gradually becoming paler to the outermost feather, which is almost 

 white ; quills dark brown with white shafts, lighter on the inner 

 webs, and white at the base for one-third on the outside, and 

 two-thirds of the inner webs of the primaries, and for two-thirds of 

 the inner margin only of the inner web of the secondaries, 

 the rest being dark brown, with a narrow border of white ; 

 tertiaries with some of the feathers altogether white on the 

 inner web and tip ; lower parts, including the cheeks, entirely 

 snow-white, some of the smaller under-coverts of the wing alone 

 being mottled with ashy. 



Bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs black. Length 6^ inches ; 

 extent 12^; wing 3| ; tail 1-^-; bill § to 1 ; tarsus |. 



This very curious little bird has hitherto only been found on 

 the mouths of the Ganges and on the coast of Chittagong and 

 Arrakan. It frequents the mud-banks and sand-banks of the 

 sea shore and tidal rivers, and feeds in company with various small 

 TringoB. It was erroneously described by Linnaeus as from Suri- 

 nam. 



