TRINGA SUBMINUTA, 



(THE LONG-TOED STINT.) 



\Totanus damacensis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 



Tringa subminuta, Midd. Sib. Reise, p. 222, t. xix. fig. 6 (1853) ; Schrenck, Reisen u. Forsch. 



Amur-L. i. p. 424 (1860) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 691 (1864) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 402. 

 Tringa salina, Pallas, apud Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 7, " Tringa minuta," p. 5 



(1871); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872 (first record from Ceylon), p. 474; Legge, Str. Feath. 



1873, p. 491. 

 Triyiga ruficollis, Pallas, apud Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. p. 234 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 



1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 461; Ball, ibid. vii. 1878, p. 228; Hume, ibid. 1879, viii. 



p. 113 (List Ind. Birds). 

 Tringa damacensis (Horsf.), Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 413 ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, 



p. 48 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 168; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 409 ; Hume, Str. 



Feath. 1873, p. 242; Oates & Hume, ibid. 1875, p. 182; Blakiston & Piyer, Ibis, 



1878, p. 221 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 226. 

 Actodromas salina (Pall.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 324 (1874). 

 Tringa minuta (lapsus calami*), Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 29. 

 Pallas's Stint of some ; Sandpiper, Sand-Lark, Europeans. Kotan, Tamil. 

 Olawatuwa, Sinhalese. 



Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 6-0 to 6-25 inches ; wing 3-65 to 3-8 ; tail 1'5 ; tarsus 0-8 to 0-9 ; middle 



toe and claw 09 to l - ; bill to gape - 72 to - 81. 

 Iris brown ; bill blackish yellowish or yellowish green at base beneath ; legs and feet yellowish olivaceous, the joints 



plumbeous and the toes slightly greenish. 



Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, hind neck, back, scapulars, and tertials deep sepia-brown, darkening into black on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, and edged, except on these latter parts, very broadly with brownish ashy ; wing-coverts 

 of a slightly paler brown, with the edgings greyish white ; quills and centre tail-feathers blackish brown, paling 

 on each successive tail-feather to the outermost, which is very light brown ; secondaries and their coverts, and 

 all but the centre tail-feathers, tipped with white ; the 1st primary with a sullied white shaft, the remainder brown ; 

 lores, cheeks, sides of neck, and the chest striated with brown ; the ear-coverts almost uniform ; in front of the 

 eye a darkish spot, above the lores a white streak (not extending to the point of the forehead) ; chin, throat, and 

 under surface, with the sides of the lower back and rump, white, with either a greyish or greyish-brown wash 

 over the striated part of the chest and the upper flanks ; under wing-coverts white, the lesser rows with dark bases. 



Summer plumage (A moor Land, Dr. Maack). Female. "Wing 3"72 inches ; tail 1'4 ; tarsus 0-87 ; middle toe and claw 



0-95 ; bill at front 076. 

 Head, back, scapulars, rump, and centre tail-feathers brown-black, the rump and tail-coverts uniform, the rest margined 



with rufous ; the centre tail-feathers edged with rufous-buff ; the hind-neck feathers broadly margined with buff ; 



tertials edged with buff and rufous ; least wing-coverts uniform brown, the greater edged with rufescent buff ; 



quills as in winter; the black of the forehead comes down to the bill ; lores, above the eye, and the face whitish, 



streaked with brown, particularly on the ear-coverts ; chin and gorge unspotted white ; a buff wash across the 



centre of the throat, and the feathers with dark shaft-lines ; rest of the under surface white ; a few spots of brown 



on the lower flanks. 



Correctly spoken of as T. salina in Str. Feath. 1873, p. 491, the Stint of the Galle district. 



