Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 202. 
Family SCOLOPACIDM. 
PISOBIA DAMACENSIS. 
LONG-TOED STINT. 
(Plates 159 and 160.) 
Totanus DAMACENSIS Hoisfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XIII., p. 192, 1821 ; 
Java. 
Totanus damacensis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 192, 1821. 
Tringa svhminuta MiddendorfE, Sibirische Peise, p. 222, 1851 (Siberia) ; Schrenck, Vogels 
des Amur-Landes, p. 424, 1860 ; Padde, Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 333, 
1863 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 438, 1887 ; Taezanowski, Mem I’Acad. 
Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 914, 1893; Buturlin, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 97, 1911. 
Tringa minuta (not Leisler) Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As, Soc, Bengal, p. 270, 1852. 
Actodromus suhminuta Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XVIII., p. 596, 1856. 
Tringa, damacensis SAvinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 316. 
Tringa salina (not Pallas) Gray, Handl. Gen. Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 50, 1871. 
Actodromas salina (not Pallas) Salvador!, Ann, Mus. Civ. Gen,, Vol. V., p. 324, 1874. 
Tringa rufwollis (not Pallas) Waldon, Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. IX., p. 234, 1875. 
Actodromas damacensis Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 71, 1883; id.. Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 116, 1885. 
Limonites damacensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 553, 1896 ; Hall, Kpy 
Birds Austr., p. 117, 1906. 
Pisobia damacensis Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 28, 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 222, 1912. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-'plumage. General colour above black, rufous, and grey ; crown 
of head, back, and scapulars black, the feathers margined with rufous ; upper 
hind-neck inclining to brown, with grey margins ; lesser, median, and greater 
wing-coverts brown, with pale or whitish margins at the tips ; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts dark brown, the latter tipped with white ; primary-quills also 
dark brown, the outer, or first, primary with a white shaft ; secondaries pale brown, 
fringed with white at the tips, the long innermost secondaries dark browm with 
rufous margins ; rump and upper tail-coverts black, the lateral feathers white ; 
middle tail-feathers blackish with pale margins, the outher feathers grey with 
white edges ; superciliary fine whitish ; sides of face and sides of neck buff, with 
pale brown streaks becoming broader on the sides of the neck and narrower again 
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