252 TMNGIN^. 



Upper parts as in mimita ; chin, throat and supercilia white ; a dark 

 Bpot in front of the eye ; breast and lower neck ashy brown ; belly, vent 

 and under tail-coverts white ; four central tail feathers dusky brown, 

 the rest white ; legs pale horny green, or greenish olive. 



LeiiLjth.—Q to 6-25 inches, wing 3-8, bill at front 0'7, irides deep 

 brown. 



Hah. — As the last, and associated with it everywhere. 



Limicola platyrhyncha, Tem. ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 331 ; G. R. 

 Gr. and M. G. B. pi. 156, 2 ; Jerd. B. Ind, iii. p. 692; Sir. F. i. 246 ; 

 Murray, Hdblc, Zool, 8fc., Bind, p. 220.— The Beoad-billbd Stint. 



la winter, the crown of the head, back, scapulars and wing-coverts are 

 ashy brown, tinged with rufous ; neck and cheeks white, spotted with 

 brown; primaries and tail brown, the latter edged with pale reddish ashy; 

 lower parts white ; the flanks, breast and under tail-coverts tinged with 

 rufous. In summer dress the Broad-billed Stint has the crown of the 

 head brownish black, varied with greyish ; the neck on the sides and in 

 front greyish white, with black spots, and tinged with buffy ; chin white, 

 with a few dark spots ; lower back black with fulvous white or rufous 

 margins to the feathers. 



Length.— 6-b to 6-75 inches, wing 8-9 to 4-32, bill at front 1-27 to 

 r37, tarsi 0'94 ; irides deep brown, legs and feet dusky black. 



Hab. — The Indian Coast generally. Occurs commonly at Kurrachee 

 and along the Mekran Coast, also at Kutch, and in Bengal. 



Gen. Calidris.— Cwy. 



Hind toe "wanting, otherwise as in Tringa. 



Calidris arenaria, Lin. -, WUs. Amer. Dm. pi. 59, 4, 63, 3 ; Gould. 

 B. Eur. pi. 335; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 694; Str. F. vol. i. 244; iv. 343, 

 465; Murray, lldblc, Zool., Sj-c, Bind, p. 221. — The Sandebling. 



In winter the forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, neck in 

 front, belly, thighs, vent and under tail-coverts white; crown of the 

 head, sides of the neck and breast, back and scapulars cinereous or 

 ashy brown, the feathers with dark shafts ; shoulders and edge- of 

 the wing dark brown ; median and greater coverts like the back, 

 dark shafted and tipped white ; primaries dark brown, all white 

 shafted ; their inner webs ashy, and the four middle ones white on their 

 outer webs, forming in the closed wing a wedge-shaped spot; secondaries 

 brown or dusky, tipped with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts brown, 

 edged with white ; tail brownish ash, edged with white, the two 

 central feathers darker than the rest ; bill black, 0"93 to 1 inch in 

 length. 



Length. — 7*5, wing 4' 75, tail 2, tarsus 0'92 ; irides deep brown, legs 

 black. 



Hah. — Kurrachee (Siud) Beloochistan Coast, Persia ; Kutch, Guzerat, 

 Concan and South India, also the Laccadives, the West Coast and 

 the Irrawady Delta. In the Kurrachee harbour extremely abundant, 

 associated with the Stints on the sea shore. 



