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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
primaries dark brown with the shafts white ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
brown^ each feather broadly edged with white ; tail pale brown. 
In summer the upper plumage is spotted and bordered with rufous ; the 
rump pure white ; the breast dark brown^ each feather with a white trans- 
verse band about the middle. 
Irides dark brown ; bill dusky blacky paler at base of lower mandible ; 
legs and feet greenish dusky. [Armstrong.) 
Length 12 inches^ tail 2*7^ wing 7'\, tarsus 1'4, bill from gape r8_, 
middle toe and claw 1"15. 
A few years ago Mr. Shopland sent me a specimen of this Stint 
which he shot on the Arrakan coast near Akyab in January. Dr. Arm- 
strong procured one specimen in the Irrawaddy Delta. It is apparently 
rather rare in Burmah; but it will probably be found along the entire 
sea-coast in the winter months. 
It has a wide range_, being found in Japan and Eastern Siberia in 
summer^ migrating in winter as far south as Australia^ and eastwards to 
Scinde. It has also been found in the Andaman and Laccadive Islands. 
This Stint appears to be entirely maritime ; but nothing of particular 
interest is recorded about its habits. 
Genus PELIDNA, Cuv. 
736. PELIDNA SUBARQUATA. 
THE CURLEW STINT. 
Scolopax subarquata, Gilld. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p, 471, t. xviii. Tringa 
subarquata, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 689 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 156 ; Armstrong, S. F. 
iv. p. 342; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 472; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 59, pi. ; 
Hume Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 460; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 
p. 879; Oates, S. F. x. p. 240. Pelidna subarquata, S(dvad. Ucc. Born. 
p. 322. 
Description. — Winter plumage. The whole upper plumage^ wing-coverts^ 
scapulars and tertiaries ashy brown^ the shafts of the feathers blackish^ the 
margins narrowly greyish white ; the greater wing-coverts more broadly 
edged with white ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail brown^ edged with white ; 
primaries brown^ the shaft of the first primary chiefly white^ those of the 
other feathers brown^ turning white towards the tip only ; secondaries 
brown ; sides of the neck^ fore neck and breast white streaked with brown ; 
chin^ throat and remainder of lower plumage^ axillaries and under wing- 
coverts white. 
