TRINGA SOAKQUATA. 



(THE CURLEW STINT.) 



Scolopax subarquata, Guldenst. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 471 (1775). 



" Numenius subarquata (Guld.)," Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 276, pi. 21 (1803). 



Tringa subarquata, Temm. Man. ii. p. 609 (1820) ; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 193 

 (1821); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 328 (1837); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 269 

 (1849) ; Layard & Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. App. p. 61 (1S53) ; Middendorff, Sibir. 

 Reise, ii. p. 220 (1853); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Llist. 1854, xiv. p. 265 ; Schrenck, 

 Reisen u. Forsch. Amur-Lande, p. 421 (I860); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 689 (1864); 

 Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 31 (1864) ; Layard, B. of S. Africa, no. 621 (1867); 

 Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 254 (1872); Hume & Hen- 

 derson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 288 (1873); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 242, et 1874, 

 p. 297; Adam, t. c. p. 339; Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1193 (1874); Irby, 

 B. of Gibraltar, p. 172 (1875) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 402 ; Blanford, Zool. Persia, 

 p. 284 (1876); Scully, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 187; Armstrong, t. c. p. 342; Cockbum, 

 t. c. p. 510; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 472 (1877) ; Dresser, B. of Eur. 

 pt. 67, 68 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 460 ; id. ibid. 1879 (List 

 of Ind. B.), p. 113; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 150. 



Schoeniclus subarquatus (Guld.), Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 32 (1848). 



Ancylocheilus subarquatus (Giild.), Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 256 (1865). 



Pelidna subarquata (Giild.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 322 (1874). 



Alouette de mer, BufFon ; Cape Curlew, Bed Sandpiper, Pygmy Curlew, Latham ; bogen- 

 schnabliger Schlammlaufer,GermdLn; Krasnogrudka, Russian, N.E. Siberia (Middendorff); 

 Niutscha, Amoor Land (Schrenck) ; Sandpiper, Snippet, Sportsmen in Ceylon ; Curlew 

 Sandpifer of some. Yamghurchi, Kugnak, Turkestan (Scully); Kotan, Ceylonese Tamils. 



Watuwa, Oliya, Sinhalese. 



Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 8-0 to 8-6 inches ; wing 5-05 to 5-2, expanse 15-8 to 16-2 ; tail T8 to 2-1 ; 



tarsus 1-15 to 1*3 ; middle toe and claw 0-9 to 1-05 ; bill to gape (straight) 1-45 to 1-62. 

 Note. The bill is slightly curved throughout in this species ; it varies considerably in length, and somewhat in the 



amount of curvature. 

 Iris brown ; bill black or deep green-black ; legs and feet blackish leaden. 



Winter plumage (Ceylon). Above with the wing-coverts and tail light cinereous brown, darkening on the rump and above 

 the ulna, the feathers with dark shafts and edged narrowly with whitish, chiefly on the hind neck and median wing- 

 coverts, and least so on the back and lesser coverts ; quills and their coverts darkish brown, paler on the inner 

 webs ; the inner primaries broadly edged at the centre, and the secondaries and their coverts tipped with white ; 

 shafts of the 1st quill white, except at the base, the next two white near the tips ; rectrices edged with the same ; 

 a dark band through the lores, in general blackish at the eye ; supercilium, orbits, lower part of face, chin, throat, 

 and all beneath upper tail-coverts and under wing-coverts white ; sides of head and neck striped with brownish ; 

 the chest overlaid with a grey wash, and the feathers striped with brown. In some examples the upper tail- 

 coverts do not seem to lose the blackish bars and stripes peculiar to the summer dress. 



Summer plumage (Tenesay valley, lat. 66|°). Male. "Wing 5-1 inches ; tail 2-2 ; tarsus 1-2 ; middle toe and claw 



0-95 ; bill to gape 1-5. 

 Tore neck and its sides, chest, breast, and flanks uniform glossy chestnut-red ; all round the base of the bill and on the 



