TRINGA SUBMINUTA. 
(THE LONG-TOED STINT.) 
? Totanus damacensis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 
Tringa subminuta, Midd. Sib. Reise, p. 222, t. xix. fig. 6 (1853) ; Schrenck, Reisen u. Forscb. 
Araur-L. i. p. 424 (1860) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 691 (1864); Legge, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 402. 
Tringa salina, Pallas, apnd Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 7, “ Tringa minuta, ^ p. 5 
(1871); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872 (first record from Ceylon), p. 474; Legge, Str. Death. 
1873, p. 491. 
Tringa ruficollis, Pallas, apud Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. 187 5, ix. p. 234 ; Hume, Str. Death. 
1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 461; Ball, ibid. vii. 1878, p. 228; Hume, ibid. 1879, viii. 
p. 113 (List Ind. Birds). 
Tringa damacensis (Horsf.), Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 413; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, 
p. 48 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 168 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 409 ; Hume, Str. 
Feath. 1873, p. 242; Oates & Hume, ibid. 1875, p. 182; Blakiston & Pryer, Ibis, 
1878, p. 221; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 226. 
Actodromas salina (Pall.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 324 (18<4). 
Tringa minuta (lapsus calami*), Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 29. 
Pallas’s Stint of some ; Sandpiper , Sand-Lark, Europeans. Kotan, Tamil. 
Olawatmva, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 6-0 to 6-25 inches ; wing 3-65 to 3-8 ; tail 1-5 ; tarsus 0-8 to 0-9 ; middle 
toe and claw O’ 9 to I/O ; bill to gape 0’72 to 0’81. 
Iris brown; bill blackish yellowish or yellowish green at base beneath ; legs and feet yellowish olivaceous, the joints 
plumbeous and the toes slightly greenish. 
Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, hind neck, back, scapulars, and tertials deep sepia-brown, darkening into black on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts, and edged, except on these latter parts, very broadly with brownish ashy ; wing-coverts 
of a slightly paler brown, with the edgings greyish white ; quills and centre tail-feathers blackish brown, paling 
on each successive tail-feather to the outermost, which is very light brown; secondaries and their coverts, and 
all but the centre tail-feathers, tipped with white ; the 1st primary with a sullied white shaft, the remainder brown ; 
lores, cheeks, sides of neck, and the chest striated with brown ; the ear-coverts almost uniform ; in front of the 
eye a darkish spot, above the lores a white streak (not extending to the point of the forehead) ; chin, throat, and 
under surface, with the sides of the lower back and rump, white, with either a greyish or greyish-brown wash 
over the striated part of the chest and the upper flanks ; under wing-coverts white, the lesser rows with dark bases. 
Summer plumage (Amoor Land, Dr. Maack). Female. Wing 3’72 inches; tail 1’4; tarsus 0 87 , middle toe and claw 
095 ; bill at front 076. . . 
Head, back, scapulars, rump, and centre tail-feathers brown-black, the rump and tail-coverts uniform, the rest margined 
with rufous ; the centre tail-feathers edged with rufous-buff ; the hind-neck feathers broadly margined w it 11 > 
tertials edged with buff and rufous ; least wing-coverts uniform brown, the greater edged with rufescent bufl ; 
quills as in winter; the black of the forehead comes down to the bill; lores, above the eye, and the ace w itis i , 
streaked with brown, particularly on the ear-coverts ; chin and gorge unspotted white ; a buff wash across the 
centre of the throat, and the feathers with dark shaft-lines ; rest of the under surface white ; a few spots ot brown 
on the lower flanks. 
* Correctly spoken of as T. salina in Str. Feath. 1873, p. 491, the Stint of the Galle district. 
