4X2 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . 
met with a white-rumped Stint. Flocks of Dunlins begin to 
arrive on our shores at the end of August: among these you 
frequently find adult birds in full summer plumage. The early 
flocks pass southwards, and are replaced by larger accessions 
from the north, and in the cold season the shore swarms with 
them. They feed chiefly, as the inspection of their gizzards 
testifies, on the small univalve mollusks left in the mud by the 
receding tide. 
140. Tringa acuminata. 
Totanus acuminatus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192. 
Schceniclus australis , Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 30. 
I found this species very abundant on the marshes of Takoo 
(North China) in August. At the end of that month a few may 
always be discovered hurrying down our coasts southwards. 
They return to the north as late as May. On the 18th and 21st 
May I procured several specimens. These appear identical with 
the Australian bird. Length 8^ in.; wing 4^; tail 2Bill 
1; tarsi 1 ^; apical half of bill purplish black; basal half olive- 
brown, with a tinge of flesh-colour. Legs yellowish olive, with 
black claws. 
p 141. Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. 
Flocks of this bird were frequently met with on the south-west 
shores in September. Most of those I procured were in partial 
summer plumage, with more or less freckled breasts. 
<S , shot 2nd September. “ Length in.; wing 4^; bill 
along culmen 1 $ . Length 7^; wing ^; bill along culmen 
1 j^. Bill blackish mud-green; inside of mouth dark flesh-colour. 
Tongue long, rather broad, and somewhat concave. A double 
row of inverted papillae runs down the centre of roof of mouth, 
nearly its whole length. Legs yellowish grey, with dark leaden- 
grey tarsal joints and toes; claws black. Body abounding in 
fat. Gizzard oval, with moderate lateral tendons; epithelium 
very thin, of a dark mud-green stain, containing marine vegetable 
substances, with no pebbles or small stones. Intestines 18 in. 
long; caeca 1^ from anus, about 1^ long.” 
142. Tringa temminckii, Leisler. 
A common winter visitant to the inland waters and marshes. 
