134 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a\ Outer tail-feathers pale smoky or ashy bro^\^l. 



b^. Feet blackish; middle toe Avith claw not over 19 mm. 



c^. Tarsus slightly more than 20 mm. ; sides of face and throat slightly rufescent 

 in simimer ; rufous color predominating over the black above. 



minuta (p. 134) 

 c". Tarsus shorter, about 19 mm.; entire throat and chest bright rufous in 



summer ruficoUis (p. 135) 



6°. Feet olive-brown; middle toe with claw about 23 nun.... damacensis (p. 136) 

 a". Outer tail-feathers pure white temmincki (p. 137) 



113. PISOBIA MINUTA (Leisler). 



LITTLE STINT. 



Tringa minuta Leislek, in Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. (1812), 1, 74; Blan- 



FOBD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 273, fig. 63 (head). 

 Limonites minuta Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 538; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 163; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 52; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27. 

 Mindanao {Mearns). Northern Europe and northern Asia to Lake Baikal; in 

 winter Africa, Indian Peninsula, and Ceylon. 



"Adult in winter plumage. — General color above ashy brown, slightly 

 darker along the shafts ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish 

 brown ; sides of lower back and lateral upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail- 

 feathers light smok}^ brown, the long central ones dark brown, with a 

 very narrow whitish fringe; wing-coverts rather darker brown than the 

 back, with ash}^ fringes to the median series; greater coverts tipped with 

 white, forming a wing-band; alula and primary-coverts blackish brown, 

 edged with white at tips; quills dark brown, with white shafts, a few of 

 the inner primaries also edged with white near the base ; secondaries dark 

 brown, fringed with white at the tips, bases of inner webs white, fomiing 

 a continuous band with the one on greater coverts ; long inner secondaries 

 light brown like scapulars, the shafts blackish brown; crown brown like 

 the back, the feathers with darker brown centers; forehead and supra- 

 loral region pure white ; lores dusk}' brown ; ear-coverts and feathers below 

 eye light bro\vn, with narrow streaks of dark brown; above ear-coverts 

 a streak of white lined with brown, forming an indistinct eyebrow; 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface pure white slightly ashy on throat and 

 fore neck; sides of neck and upper breast brown, with slightly darker 

 centers or shaft-streaks; under wing-coverts and axillars white; coverts 

 round edge of wing dark brown, with white margins; lower primary- 

 coverts dull ashy brown, forming an inconspicuous wing-patch. ^Bill, 

 feet, and claw black; iris hazel.' (SeehoJwi.) Length, 133; culmen, 18; 

 wing, 96; tail, 41 ; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 18. 



"Adult male in nummer plumage. — Much more rufous than in winter; 



