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less mottled with rufous and black, crown rufous with short, broad streaks 
of black, sides of face and entir@fieck all round rufous, fore neck and 
breast overshaded with rufous and barred with dusky blackish, these bars 
also developed on abdomen and on the sides of body. 
“Adult female in summer plumage.—Similar to the male, but with less 
rufous, and distinguished by the larger size. 
“VY oung.—Distinguished from the adults by being darker brown above, 
with broad, sandy-rufous edges to the feathers of the upper surface, the 
innermost secondaries banded with blackish brown and sandy rufous; the 
head rufous, streaked with dark brown, but indistinctly; sides of face 
buffy white, with very fine streaks of brown; throat white; lower throat, 
sides of neck, and chest reddish buff, shghtly mottled with dusky bases 
to the feathers of the side of breast; remainder of under surface white, 
suffused with rufescent buff, and shaded with ashy brown on the sides of 
the body. 
“Tt is evident from the molting specimens in the collection that the 
black markings are acquired first, and that the rufous-color overspreads 
the plumage afterwards. Great variation in the amount of the nuptial 
decoration is seen in the series, and sometimes very old individuals have 
the abdomen, and even the under tail-coverts, barred.” ( Sharpe.) 
The black-tailed godwit is extremely rare in the Philippines, the only 
specimens examined by me being two killed near Manila, in February, 
1908. 
Genus TOTANUS Bechstein, 1803. 
Culmen straight, equal to tarsus; secondaries and rump white. 
105. TOTANUS EURHINUS (Oberholser). 
ASIATIC REDSHANK, 
Totanus calidris SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 414 (part) ; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 160 (part); OaTrs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 
43 (part). 
Totanus totanus eurhinus OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. (1900), 22, 
207. 
Totanus eurhinus McGREGoR and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 25. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; 
Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Mindanao (Mearns) ; 
Mindoro (Porter) ; Negros (Steere Hxp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Palawan (Platen, 
Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). Central and eastern 
Asia, south in winter to Malay Archipelago. 
“Male.—Above rufescent broccoli-brown, the feathers everywhere with 
dark brown centers, the back more or less irregularly barred with the 
same; rump pure white, sparingly marked with brownish, tail and upper 
tail-coverts dull white, heavily barred with sepia-brown, the terminal por- 
tion of central tail-feathers buffy; wings fuscous, the innermost second- 
