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feathers of upper surface sandy rufous ; black centers and white margins 

 to many of the scapulars and feathers of the back; feathers of head 

 rufous, with black centers; neck laifous, streaked with dusky blackish, 

 these streaks being smaller and less distinct on sides of face, which are 

 also rufous ; a slight indication of a whitish eyebrow ; under surface white, 

 throat tinged with rufous, chest pervaded with ashy, and throat, fore 

 neck, and sides of breast mottled with dusky spots in the centers of the 

 feathers. Lenth, 152; culmen, 19; wing, 96; tail, 36; tarsus, 20. 



''Adult female in summer plumage. — Similar to the male, but some- 

 what less distinctly spotted on the breast. Length, 152; culmen, 18; 

 wing, 98; tail, 37; tarsus, 20. 



''Young. — Blackish above, with rufous edgings to the feathers, and 

 thus somewhat resembling the summer plumage of the adults, but they 

 may always be distinguished by the more numerous white edgings to the 

 dorsal and scapular feathers, by the ashy color of the hind neck, by the 

 absence of spots on the fore neck and chest, both of whicli are tinged 

 with isabelline-buff. 



"Nestling. — Mottled with rufous and black down, the tips of which 

 are silvery white or sandy buff; the hind neck sandy buff, forming a 

 collar; the crown black, slightly mottled with rufous and dotted with 

 silvery white, the black extending in a line on the forehead, which is 

 buff, continued into a somewhat broad eyebrow; a black loral line and a 

 black spot on each side of the hinder crown as well as on the ear-coverts; 

 under surface of body whitish, with a tinge of sandy buff' on the lower 

 throat." (Sharpe.) 



114. PISOBIA RUFICOLLIS (Pallas). 



ASIATIC LITTLE STINT. 



Trynga rvficollis Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs (1776), 3, 700. 

 Limonites ruficolUs Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 545; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 163; McGregok and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27. 



Ti-ut ti-ut, Bantayan. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol {Everett, McGregor); Calayan {McGregor); 

 Cebu {Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, 

 Whitehead) ; Mindanao (M earns, Celestino) ; Negros (Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp.). Eastern Siberia, Japan, and Korea; 

 in winter Burmese countries to Australia. 



"Adult in winter plumage. — Eesembles the winter plumage of L. 

 minuta, but distinguished by the whiter fore neck and chest, and by the 

 slightly shorter tarsus. Length, 145; culmen, 18; wing, 96; tail, -12; 

 tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 18. 



"Adult male in summer plumage. — Much more mottled on tlie \ipper 

 surface than in winter, the centers of the feathers being l)lackisli, and 



