TBINGA ST7BAKQUATA. 
(THE CURLEW STINT.) 
Scolopax subarquata , Giildenst. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 471 (1775). 
“ Numenius subarquata (Giild.),” Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 276, pi. 21 (1803). 
Tringa subarquata, Temm. Man. ii. p. 609 (1820); Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 19o 
(1821); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 328 (1837); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 269 
(1849) ; Layard & Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. App. p. 61 (1853) ; Middendorff, Sibir. 
Reise, ii. p. 220 (1853); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 265 ; Schrenck, 
Reisen u. Forscb. Amur-Lande, p. 421 (1860); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 689 (1864); 
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 31 (1864) ; Layard, B. of S. Africa, no. 621 (1867); 
Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 254 (1872); Hume & Hen- 
derson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 288 (1873); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 242, et 1874, 
p. 297; Adam, t. c. p. 339; Yon Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1193 (1874) ; Irby, 
B. of Gibraltar, p. 172 (1875); Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 402; Blanford, Zool. Persia, 
p. 284 (1876); Scully, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 187 ; Armstrong, t. c. p. 342; Cockburn, 
t. c. p. 510; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 472 (1877) ; Dresser, B. of Eur. 
pt. 67, 68 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 460 ; id. ibid. 1879 (List 
of Ind. B.),p. 113 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 150. 
Schceniclus subarquatus (Giild.), Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 32 (1848). 
Ancylocheilus subarquatus (Giild.), Gould, ILandb. B. Austr. ii. p. 256 (1865). 
Pelidna subarquata (Giild.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Bom. p. 322 (1874). 
Alouette de mer, Buffon ; Cape Curlew, Bed Sandpiper, Pygmy Curlew, Latham ; bogen- 
schnabliqer ScMammldufer, German; Krasnogrudka, Russian, N.E. Siberia (Middendorff); 
Niutsclia, Amoor Land (Schrenck) ; Sandpiper, Snippet, Sportsmen in Ceylon ; Curlew 
Sandpiper of some. Yamghurchi, Kugnak, Turkestan (Scully); Kotan, Ceylonese Tamils. 
Watuwa , Oliya, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 8-0 to 8-0 inches ; wing 5-05 to 5 '2, expanse 15-8 to 16-2 ; tail 1-8 to 2-1 ; 
tarsus ITS to 1*3 ; middle toe and claw 0-9 to T05 ; bill to gape (straight) 1-45 to 1'62. 
Note. The bill is slightly curved throughout in this species ; it varies considerably in length, and somewhat in the 
amount of curvature. 
Iris brown ; bill black or deep green-black ; legs and feet blackish leaden. 
Winter plumage (Ceylon) . Above with the wing-coverts and tail light cinereous brown, darkening on the rump and above 
the ulna, the feathers with dark shafts and edged narrowly with whitish, chiefly on the hind neck and median wing- 
coverts, and least so on the back and lesser coverts ; quills aud their coverts darkish brown, paler on the inner 
webs ; the inner primaries broadly edged at the centre, and the secondaries and their coverts tipped with white ; 
shafts of the 1st quill white, except at the base, the next two white near the tips; rectrices edged with the same; 
a dark band through the lores, in general blackish at the eye ; superciliura, orbits, lower part of face, chin, throat, 
and all beneath upper tail-coverts and under wing-coverts white ; sides of head and neck striped with brownish ; 
the chest overlaid with a grey wash, and the feathers striped with brown. In some examples the upper tail- 
coverts do not seem to lose the blackish bars and stripes peculiar to the summer dress. 
Summer plumage (Yenesay valley, lat. 66|°). Male. Wing 5T inches ; tail 2-2 ; tarsus 1-2 ; middle toe and claw 
0-95 ; bill to gape 1-5. 
Tore neck and its sides, chest, breast, and flanks uniform glossy chestnut-red ; all round the base of the bill and on the 
