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BIEDS or BRITISH BUKMAH. 
It resembles T. minuta in having the outer tail-feathers brown, but differs 
in having the shafts of all the primaries brown except that of the first quill, 
which is dull white. From T. temmincJci it maybe separated by the colour 
of its outer tail-feathers as well as by its long toes. 
I agree with Major Legge in thinking T. subminuta the proper name for 
this species. T. ruficoHis and T. salina of Pallas most probably refer to 
the species usually passing current as T. albescens, and Horsfield''s name 
T. damacensis is of doubtful application. 
The Long-toed Stint is very abundant throughout Pegu in the winter 
months, arriving as early as the 7th of August, at which date I have shot 
it in full summer plumage. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan ; and 
Mr. Davison procured it in Tenasserim, where, however, it does not appear 
to be very abundant. 
It is found, according to season, from North-eastern Siberia, Amoorland 
and Japan, through China and Mongolia to Burmah, extending on the 
west to Bengal, the eastern coast of India and Ceylon, and ranging 
southwards to the Malay peninsula, Java, Borneo, Celebes and the Philip- 
pines. 
This Stint appears to be confined to inland waters, frequenting the 
banks of ponds and more usually fiooded paddy-fields and pools of water. 
I have invariably met with it in large flocks of twenty individuals or more. 
Judging from the early date of its arrival in Burmah, its breeding-haunts 
cannot be very far north. 
734. TRINGA TEMMINCKI. 
TEMMINCK^S STINT. 
Tringa temminckii, Leisl. Nacht. zuBechst. Naturg. Deutsch. i, p. 63; Jerd. B. Ind. 
ii. p. 691 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 45, pi. ; Hume, S. F. i. p. 244, iii. p. 183 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 156 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 473 ; Anders. Yunnan 
Exped. p. 680 ; Hume Sf Dav. 8. F. vi. p, 461 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113 ; Scully, 
8. F. viii. p. 357 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 892 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 240. Acto- 
dromas temminckii, Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 324. 
Description. — Winter plumage. The whole upper plumage from the fore- 
head to the tail-coverts, the sides of the face and of the neck, and the 
breast uniform pale ashy brown, the shafts only of the feathers being 
darker ; wing- coverts brown tipped with ashj^, the greater series tipped 
with white ; quills brown, the shaft of the first primary white, those of the 
others hair-brown ; secondaries tipped with white ; central pair of tail- 
feathers dark brown, the next paler, the next two pairs albescent, and the 
outer two pairs pure white ; forehead and feathers in front of the eye 
whitish ; chin, throat and all the lower plumage except the breast white. 
