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less mottled with rufous and black, crown rufous with short, broad streaks 

 of black, sides of face and entire neck 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. 



"Young. 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, slightly 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. 



"It 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 god wit 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); GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 



43 (part). 

 Totanus totanus eurhinus OBEBHOLSEB, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1900), 22, 



207. 

 Totanus eurhinus McGBEOOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 25. 



Bantayan (McGregor)-, Basilan (McGregor)-, Bohol (Everett, McGregor); 

 Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Mindanao (M earns) ; 

 Mindoro (Porter) ; Negros (8teere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Palawan (Platen, 

 Whitehead) -, Siquijor (8teere 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- 



