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upper parts overspread with a brighter chestnut color, with which the 
feathers are broadly margined ; @#wn blackish, washed with rufous and 
mottled with gray margins; forehead and eyebrow shaded with bright 
rufous, this color occupying entire sides of face, sides of neck, throat, 
and chest; chin whitish. ‘Bill and feet black; iris nearly black. (Dy- 
bowski.) Length, 135; culmen, 18; wing, 98; tail, 43; tarsus, 19; middle 
toe with claw, 19. 
“Adult female in summer plumage.—Does not differ materially from 
the male, but is perhaps scarcely so rufous, and retains a little more of 
the hoary gray of the winter plumage. ‘Iris brown.’ (Hverett.) Length, 
127; culmen, 18; wing, 99; tail, 43; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 18. 
“Young.—NScarcely distinguishable from the young of L. minuta.” 
(Sharpe. ) 
“Frequently seen in large flocks during the winter months.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
Of the stints that visit the Philippine Islands in winter the Asiatic 
little stint undoubtedly occurs in greater numbers than all the others taken 
together; it is the only abundant species and is usually found in large 
or small flocks on tide-flats. 
115. PISOBIA DAMACENSIS (Horsfield). 
LONG-TOED STINT. 
Totanus damacensis HORSFIELD, Trans. Linn. Soe. (1821), 13, 192. 
Limonites damacensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 553; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; McGreeor and WorcestreR, Hand-List 
(1906), 28. 
Pisobia damacensis A. O. U. ComMiITTErE, Auk (1908), 35, 367. 
Basilan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Heriot) ; Mindanao (Mearns) ; Palawan (Platen, 
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). Japan, eastern Siberia, islands of Bering Sea, 
China to northeastern Bengal; in winter Burma to Australia. 
“Adult male in winter plumage.—Similar to the winter plumage of 
LL. minuta and L. ruficollis, but darker than either of them, with the head 
and neck much more thickly spotted with black, and the lower throat 
and fore neck very distinctly streaked or mottled with brown. The 
species can of course be distinguished from both of the above species by 
its long toes. 
“Adult male in summer plumage.—Almost exactly similar to L. minuta, 
but easily distinguished by the length of the middle toe and the color of 
the legs. Length, 132; culmen, 178; wing, 86; tail, 36; tarsus, 20; 
middle toe with claw, 23. 
“Adult female-——Similar to the male in plumage. ‘Bill blackish, olive- 
brown at base of lower jaw; feet grayish yellow, with joints darker olive; 
iris dark brown.’ (Stejneger.)”  (Sharpe.) 
