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upper parts overspread with a brighter chestnut color, with which the 

 feathers aje broadly margined; crown 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/ (Everett.) Length, 

 127; culmen, 18; wing, 99; tail, 43 ; tarsus, 19 ; middle toe with claw, 18. 



"Young. Scarcely 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 HOBSFIELD, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1821), 13, 192. 

 Limonites damaccnsis SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 553; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 28. 

 Pisobia damacensis A. O. 1 T . COMMITTEE, Auk (1908), 35, 367. 



Basilan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Heriot) ; Mindanao (Mearns) Palawan (Platen, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns d 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 

 L. 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 foil' neck very distinctly stieaknl <M- 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.) 



