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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 rufous, 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 which 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 ruficolis PALLAS, Reise Russ. Reichs (1776), 3, 700. 
Limonites ruficollis SHarpeE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 545; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 163; McGrecor and WorcrEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 27. 
Ti-ut ti-tit, Bantayan. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Calayan (McGregor) ; 
Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, 
Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Mearns, Celestino); Negros (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp.). Eastern Siberia, Japan, and Korea; 
in winter Burmese countries to Australia. 
“Adult in winter plumage.—Resembles 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, 42; 
tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 18. 
“Adult male in summer plumage.—Much more mottled on the upper 
surface than in winter, the centers of the feathers being blackish, and 
