"The adult bird in winter plumage differs from the summer plumage in the entire absence of bright rufous on the head, and the black markings on the face and sides of the breast are also not developed. The head is like the back, the forehead and eyebrow are white, the lores dusky, and there is always a more or less distinct white collar united to the two sides of the neck. "Young birds in first winter plumage only differ from the adults in having the whole upper surface distinctly marked with pale edges to the feathers." (Sharpe.) This plover appears to be a winter visitant to the Philippines and may be found in small flocks along the seashore wherever there are tide-flats. It differs from both Æ. dubia and peroni in being slightly larger and in having an incomplete band on the fore breast. Subfamily HIMANTOPODINÆ. Genus HIMANTOPUS Brisson, 1760. Bill long, slender, straight, and pointed; wing long and slender, reaching well beyond tip of tail, first primary much the longest; tail short and square; legs extremely long and slender; bare portion of tibia equal to three-fourths of tarsus, the latter two and one-half times as long as middle toe with claw; toes webbed at base; hind toe wanting. 98. HIMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS Gould. AUSTRALIAN STILT. Himantopus leucocephalus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1837), 26; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 317; Hand-List (1899), 1, 156; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 24. Basilan (McGregor); Mindanao (Cuming, Everett, Steere Exp., Celestino). Greater Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Australia, New Guinea. Male.--A narrow black collar on hind neck; entire wings, their coverts, and scapulars glossy black; rest of the plumage white. Bill and nails black; legs and feet bright red, said to be pink in life. Length, about 350; wing, 220; tail, 77; exposed culmen, 59; tarsus, 126. Female.--Smaller and the scapulars dark brown. Wing, 210; tail, 75; exposed culmen, 58; tarsus, 110. "Young.--Brown on the upper back and inner secondaries; the hind neck, from the nape to the mantle, ashy gray, mottled with dusky subterminal bars to the feathers; crown dull ashy gray; lores and fore part of face white like the under surface of the body." (Sharpe.) The stilt, even at a considerable distance, is easily recognized by its very long, slender, red legs. I observed a solitary individual in Malamaui Island near Basilan and Celestino collected a number of specimens in northern Mindanao. Subfamily TOTANINÆ. Bill long, slender, usually straight, in some species gently curved; tarsus scutellate both in front and behind except in Numenius which has the back of tarsus reticulate and the bill very long and decurved; toes slightly webbed at base. Genera. a1. Tarsus transversely scaled in front, reticulated behind; culmen more than 65 mm.; bill decurved. ... Numenius (p. 114) a2. Tarsus transversely scaled both in front and behind.