. Birds. Birds. 278- CKAHADltilD^. Australia. fn India and Burma it has only been observed in winter on or near the sea-coast at Gwadar in Baluchistan, Karachi, and the Laccadive Islands by Hume, at Akyab by Gates, at the mouth of the Eangoon river by Armstrong, and on South Andaman by Wardlaw Eamsay; but if, as is almost certain, this was the bird identified by Jerdon and BIyth with T. cctnutus, it has also been obtained at Madras and in Calcutta. 1477. Tringa subarquata. The Curlew Stint or Pigmy Curlew. Scolopax subarquata, Giildemt. Nov. Com. Petrop. xix, p. 471 (1775). Tringa subarquata,
. Birds. Birds. 278- CKAHADltilD^. Australia. fn India and Burma it has only been observed in winter on or near the sea-coast at Gwadar in Baluchistan, Karachi, and the Laccadive Islands by Hume, at Akyab by Gates, at the mouth of the Eangoon river by Armstrong, and on South Andaman by Wardlaw Eamsay; but if, as is almost certain, this was the bird identified by Jerdon and BIyth with T. cctnutus, it has also been obtained at Madras and in Calcutta. 1477. Tringa subarquata. The Curlew Stint or Pigmy Curlew. Scolopax subarquata, Giildemt. Nov. Com. Petrop. xix, p. 471 (1775). Tringa subarquata, Plyth, Cat. p. 269; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 689; Hume (^ Menders. Lah to York. p. 288 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 242 ; ii, p. 297 ; Adam, S. F. i, p. 396; ii, p. 339 ; Blyth, Birds Burin. p. 156; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 342 ; Coekburn, ibid. p. 610 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 460 ; Davids. ^ Wend. S. F. vii, p. 89 ; Hume, ibid. p. 487; id. Cat. no. 882 ; Zegge, Birds Ceyl. p. 879; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 85 ; Butler, ibid. p. 429 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 96; 1882, p. 288; Beid, S. F. x, p. 70; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 354 ; Seebohm, Charndr. p. 419. Pelidna subarquata, Gates, B. B. ii, p. 394. Aneylochilus subarquatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. Jig. 64.—Head of T. subarquata. \. Coloration in winter. Broad supercilia, generally meeting across forehead, white; lores, sides of head and neck brownish, streaked darker; upper plumage ashy brown, with more or less distinct dark shaft-stripes ; wing-coverts with light edges, greater coverts tipped with white ; bastard wing, prii&ary-coverts, primaries, and secondaries dark brown; outer webs of later primaries and of all secondaries with a white border; secondaries white at 'the base, the amount of white increasing on the inner secondaries ; lower back and middle of rump dark brown, the feathers with a pale or white edge ; sides of rump and upiper tail-coverts white ; tail ashy brown; lower pans and axillaries white; fore neck and upper
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