134 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a‘, Outer tail-feathers pale smoky orffthy brown. 
bt. Feet blackish; middle toe with claw not over 19 mm. 
ct. Tarsus slightly more than 20 mm.; sides of face and throat slightly rufescent 
in summer; rufous color predominating over the black above. 
minuta (p. 134) 
c?. Tarsus shorter, about 19 mm.; entire throat and chest bright rufous in 
PLD 111 5s) Mabe espe, nam ee ROR Sane saFop. Nhs Pope OM RSEABSA ono Ak ruficollis (p. 135) 
b?. Feet olive-brown; middle toe with claw about 23 mm.... damacensis (p. 136) 
q*. Outer tail-feathers pure white!..2:3.5:2.:....:.-2...4:022. 0) temmincki (p. 137) 
113. PISOBIA MINUTA (Leisler). 
LITTLE STINT. 
Tringa minuta LEISLER, in Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. (1812), 1, 74; BLAN- 
FoRD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 273, fig. 63 (head). 
Limonites minuta SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 538; Hand- 
: List (1899), 1, 163; Oates, 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. anh adi AVS 
“Adult in winter plumage.—General color above ach ly 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 smoky brown, the long central ones dark brown, with a 
very narrow whitish fringe; wing-coverts rather darker brown than the 
back, with ashy fringes to the median series; greater coverts tipped with 
white, forming a wing-band; alula and prima blackish brown, 
edged with white at tips; mils dark brown, with white shatts, 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, forming 
a continuous band with the one on greater coverts ; long inner - secondaries 
light brown like scapulars, the shafts blackish hrowae crown n brown wn like 
the back, the feathers with darker brown centers; forehedil n¢ 8 
loral region pure white; lores dusky brown; ear-coverts and feat the 35 
eye light brown, with narrow streaks of fae brown ; above | ear-COVE 
a streak of white lined with brown, forming an indistin : 
feet, and claw ee iris mhavell? ((Séabehin.) Length, 132: z : ; nen; 1s 
wing, 96; tail, 41; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 18. yaaa 
“Adult male in summer plumage.—Much more rufous thane V 
