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TRINGA. 



Tringa salina, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 199 (1826). 



Calirlris albescens (Temm.), Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 526 (1829). 



Tringa australis, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 558 (1831). 



Scboeniclus albescens (Temm.), Gould, Birds Australia, vi. pi. 31 (1848). 



Actodromas albescens (Temm.), \ 



Bonup. Comj>t. Rend, xliii. p. 596 (1856). 



Actodromas australis (Less.), 



Tringa minuta ruficollis (Temm.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 205. 



Literature. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Plates. — Previously unfigured. 

 Habits. — Unrecorded. 

 Eggs. — Undescribed. 



The differences between the Little Stint and the Red-throated Stint or Eastern form 

 of the Little Stint have already been pointed out. 



The Red-throated Stint breeds in Eastern Siberia. It was originally described by 

 Pallas from Dauria, and was probably the species found breeding on the islands of the 

 delta of the Lena by Dr. Bunge (Seebohm, Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. iv. p. 303). 

 It was observed by Stejneger passing Behring Island late in May, and Middendorff found 

 it during the first half of July on the southern shores of the Sea. of Okhotsk. It passes 

 Lake Baikal, Japan, and China on migration, and winters in the Malay Archipelago and 

 Australia. 



TRINGA SUBMINUTA. 



MIDDENDORFF S STINT. 



Diagnosis. Tringa magnitudine parva (alee quam 100 millim. breviores) : pedibus pallidis : rectricibus laterali- 

 bus fuscis. 



Variations. The American form of this species has on an average a smaller foot than the Siberian form 

 and may be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Synonymy. ? Totanus damacensis, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 



Tringa subminuta, Middendorff, Reise in Nord. und Ost. Sibir. ii. p. 222 (1853). 

 Actodromas subminuta (Midd.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 596 (1856). 

 Tringa damacensis (Horsf.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 413. 



