THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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on the lower -throat ; chin and upper-throat white Kke the breast, abdomen, and 
under tail-coverts ; sides of breast like the sides of the neck ; axillaries white as 
also the median under wing-coverts, the marginal coverts and the greater series 
pale brown ; bill black, base of lower mandible olive-brown ; iris dark brown ; 
feet greenish-yellow. Total length 163 mm. ; culmen 18, wing 93, tail 40, tarsus 22. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult, in winter-plumage. Differs from the male in summer-dress by the absence of rufous 
on the feathers of the upper-surface, which is replaced by oHve margins ; the grey 
on the hind-neck as well as the dark grey on the fore-neck and chest, and the 
marginal coverts on the under-wing being almost black. 
Nest and Eggs. Unknown. 
Breeds in eastern and central Siberia, not further north than 66° N. in eastern- 
most parts of its range, and much less northerly further inland (Buturhn). 
This bird was first added to the Australian List by Sharpe in 1896, in the 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, from an adult male specimen 
in winter-plumage, collected by the late Bowyer Bower on the Fitzroy River 
in North-west Australia in 1886. 
This species was first described from Java, by Horsfield, but it breeds 
in Siberia, where Middendorff and others record it. The latter also 
redescribed it under the name “ sub7ninuta.’^ 
“ The long-toed Stint arrives in Bering Island in large flocks during 
the latter part of May, and are then met with on sandy beaches, where the 
surf has thrown up large masses of sea-weed, busily engaged in picking up the 
numerous small crustaceans, etc., with which the weeds abound. Most of the 
birds stay only a few days, going further north, while a small number remain 
over summer, probably breeding sparingly on the large swamp behind the 
village. My efforts to find the nests were unsuccessful, but I shot birds near 
Zapornaja Reshka on the 17th and 22nd of June, and on the 7th of August.” 
(Stejneger, l.c.) 
Schrenck shot specimens on the 5th (17th) July on the lower Amur. 
Middendorfi, who collected this bird in Siberia, says : “I have only 
collected two specimens of this Tringa on my journey ; one on the western 
heights of the Stanovoi Mountains (Kokan River) on May 19th, and the 
other near the mouth of the Uda, on June 30th. 
“ This bird so closely resembles Tringa 7ninuta, that I have only just now, 
after minute examination, determined the difference. 
“ In shape, size and colour, it differs from T. minuta in summer-plumage, 
only in its markedly long toes and the dark coloured shafts of the wing. 
“ The middle toe of this bird measures, including the nail, 25.5 mm. long, 
of which the nail is only 4.5 mm., the tips of the two outer toe-nails reach to 
the root of the middle toe-nail ; the hind toe is 7 mm. long, including the nail 
which is 2 mm. long. 
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