THE LONG-TOEB STINT. 
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733. TRINGA SUBMINUTA. 
THE LONG-TOED STINT. ' 
Tringa subminuta, Midd. Sib. Reise, Vog. p. 222, Taf. xix. f. 6 ; Legge, Birds 
Ceylon, p. 889. Tringa damacensis {Horsf.), apud Hume, S. F. i. p. 243, iii. 
p. 182. Tringa salina {Pall), apud Legge, k F. i. p. 491 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 
viii. p. 33; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 156. Actodromas salina {Pall.), a^md 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 324. Tringa ruficollis {Pall), apud Wald. Trans. Zool 
Soc. ix. p. 234 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 472; Hume 8f Dav. S. F.yi. p. 461 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113; Gates, S. F. x. p. 240. 
Description. — Summer plumage. Forehead^ top of head and nape dark 
brown^ each feather with an edging of rich rufous on the terminal half; 
lores^ cheeks and ear- coverts the same ; an albescent patch in front of the 
eye above the lores ; the upper part of the throat pure white ; lower throat 
streaked with small marks of pale rufous-brown ; sides of throat, the 
neck, upper breast and sides of body pale rufous-brown, each feather with 
a central dark brown streak ; the rufous more pronounced on the neck 
than elsewhere ; lower breast, abdomen and vent pure white ; under tail- 
coverts white, each feather with a long, narrow, central brown streak; 
thighs rufescent ; upper neck mixed brown and pale rufous ; whole upper 
plumage^ including the scapulars and tertiaries, rich blackish brown, each 
feather broadly tipped with bright rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts glossy 
black, a few of the feathers of the latter obsoletely tipped white ; centre 
tail-feathers black edged with rufous ; the others pale brown, tipped and 
margined internally with white ; axillaries white, with a little brown at 
their bases ; under wing-coverts pale brown edged with white ; shaft of first 
quill sordid whity brown, those of the others dark hair-brown ; primaries 
and secondaries dark brown, all tipped with white except the first six 
primaries ; all the primaries except the first three with a median narrow 
margin of white on the outer web ; upper coverts brown, all more or less 
tipped and margined with dull white. 
In winter it resembles T. minuta in general appearance, but the upper 
plumage is darker ; the forehead and face where white in T. mmuta are 
streaked with brown in T. subminuta ; the greater wing-coverts and secon- 
daries are very narrowly tipped with white ; and the sides of the neck and 
the chest are thickly marked with brown streaks. 
Iris brown ; bill olive-brown ; legs and toes pale brown ; claws nearly 
black. 
Length 6*2 inches, tail 1-4, wing 3-7, tarsus "8, middle toe and claw 
nearly an inch, bill from gape -75. The female is of the same size. 
This Stint may be recognized by the great length of its toes, the middle 
one including its claw measuring frequently little short of an inch in length. 
