LONG-TOED STINT. 
“If we compare these measurements with the toe measurements of 
T. minuta and T. temminchii, we find certain points of similarity, hut neither 
in Siberia nor in Europe have I been able to find amongst more than 60 
specimens of T, minuia and T. temminchii, one specimen with the middle 
toe more than 19.5 mm. All writers agree in this.” 
Radde says : “ A male was shot on the 12th May, 1856, on the Tarei-nor, 
in full breeding-plumage. By this discovery in North Mongolia its distribution 
has been greatly extended westward.” 
“ Dybowski and Godlewski found in Dauria and in Lake Baikal towards 
the end of May. According to Nikolski it certainly nests on the island of 
Saghaline.” (Taczanowski.) 
Of the birds figured and described, the male in full breeding-plumage 
was shot on the Amur, in May, 1886. The one in winter-plumage was shot 
on the Eitzroy Eiver in North-west Australia, on September 24th of the 
same year, by the late Bowyer Bower and is the only known Australian 
record. 
Long known by Middendorff’s name of subminuta, it was originally 
described by Horsfield and the Horsfieldian name was used by ornithologists 
having access to the British Museum, where the type is preserved. The 
description given by Horsfield is, of course, quite inadequate to identify the 
species, no mention being made of the long toes and no measurements given. 
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