POLYNESIAN TATTLER. Totanus brevipes Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. (1816), 6, 410. Heteractitis brevipes Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 549; Hand-List (1899), 1, 161; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 26. Bantayan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead); Malanipa (Murray); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Goodfellow); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Platen, White); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). Eastern Siberia; in winter China to Malay Archipelago and Australia. "Adult male in winter plumage.--Above uniform ashy gray, with slightly indicated light ashy margins; scapulars like the back; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts purer gray than the back, with distinct whitish edges; the long upper tail-coverts with subterminal dusky bars; wing-coverts like back, with paler margins, greater series margined with white; primary-coverts and quills blackish, externally washed with ashy and fringed with white, inner secondaries ashy gray like the back, fringed with whitish; tail-feathers uniform ashy, with narrow whitish margins; head and neck like back; base of forehead and large supra-loral spot white, extending in a narrow streak above the eye; lores blackish; sides of face and ear-coverts white; the upper edge of the latter ashy gray; cheeks and under surface of body pure white, with a shade of ashy gray over the fore neck and chest; sides of breast and flanks also ashy gray, as well as the outer aspect of the thighs; under wing-coverts and axillars ashy gray, fringed with white at the ends; quills below ashy, lighter along the inner edges. 'Bill blackish gray, light brownish gray at base of lower mandible; feet light ocher-yellow, joints with a faint greenish tinge; iris dark brown.' (Stejneger.) Length, 223; wing, 162. "Adult female in winter plumage.--Similar to the male. 'Bill black, grayish yellow at base; feet dirty chrome-yellow; claws black.' (Everett.) Length, 229; culmen, 37; wing, 157; tail, 71; tarsus, 32. "Young in winter plumage.--Differs from the winter plumage of the adults in having the wing-coverts, scapulars, and back mottled with white dots on the outer webs of the feathers. "The adult birds appear to molt into winter plumage after quitting their summer haunts for southern latitudes, arriving with worn and abraded feathers, but with the barred under surface of the breeding dress.