TEINGA. 



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Plates. — Middendorff, Reise in Nord. u. Ost. Sibir. ii. pi. xix. fig. 6. 

 Habits. — Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 889. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Literature. 



Middendorff's Stint may be diagnosed from all its congeners (except from the 

 American Stint, which appears to be only subspecifically distinct from it) by the following 

 characters : icing less than four inches (measured from the carpal joint) ; legs and toes pale 

 brown, outer tail-feathers grey. 



Middendorff's Stint has a slightly larger foot than the American Stint, but is not 

 known to differ from it in any other respect, 



T, subminuta. 

 in. in. 



•9 to -8 

 •95 to -85 

 3 7 to 3-35 



Specific 

 characters. 



Subspecific 

 characters. 



T. minutilla. 

 in. in. 



•9 to -75 



•85 to -8 



3-9 to 3-35 



Tarsus .... 

 Middle toe and claw 

 Wing .... 



Middendorff's Stint breeds on Behring Island and on the shores of the Sea of 

 Okhotsk, but as it passes through the basin of Lake Baikal on migration it probably also 

 breeds in the valley of the Lena below the Arctic Circle. It has also been recorded from 

 the valley of the Amoor, and the coasts of Japan and China on migration, and examples 

 have been obtained in winter from the islands of the Malay Archipelago, India, Burma, 

 and Ceylon. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



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TRINGA SUBMINUTA MINUTILLA. 



AMERICAN STINT. 



Tringa subminuta pedibus parvis (digitus medius cum ungue 20^ ad 21^ millim.). 



Diagnosis. 



Middendorff's Stint and the American Stint appear completely to intergrade. 



Variations. 



Tringa minutilla, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 452 (1819). 



Tringa wilsoni, Nut.ta.ll, Man. Orn. ii. p. 121 (1834). 



Pelidna nana, Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 92 (1854). 



Actodromas minutilla {Vieill.),\ 



. , , ., . ,, T ,. . ( Bonap. Compt. Rend. xhn. p. 596 (1856). 



Actodromas wilsoni (Nutt.), J r ' 



Tringa pusilla, Linn., apud Wilson, Audubon, Bonaparte, Swainson §• Richardson, Gray, fyc. 



Synonymy. 



