"Young after first molt.--Similar to the winter plumage of the adults but more tinged with rufous-brown and with the feathers spotted with whity brown on both webs; center tail-feathers white, distinctly barred across with black, chest also distinctly streaked with dusky; sides of breast spotted and mottled with dusky brown." (Sharpe.) Genus RHYACOPHILUS Kaup, 1829. Bill straight; culmen equal to middle toe without claw but much less than tarsus; rump white. 111. RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnæus). WOOD SANDPIPER. Tringa glareola Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. Rhyacophilus glareola Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 491; Hand-List (1899), 1, 162; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 48; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27. Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Cagayan Sulu (Mearns); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Meyer, Everett, Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Negros (Steere Exp.); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; in winter Indian Peninsula to Australia. "Adult male in winter plumage.--Above bronzy brown, with light ashy bronze margins to the feathers, which are slightly spotted with white on both edges; scapulars like back, but with somewhat larger white spots; lower back and rump uniform brown, feathers of the latter edged with white; upper tail-coverts pure white, lateral ones with blackish shaft-streaks and irregular longitudinal markings; lesser wing-coverts uniform brown; median and greater coverts spotted with white on both webs and resembling the scapulars; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, fringed with white at the ends; secondaries notched with white on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish intermediary bands; center tail-feathers ashy brown, barred with blackish brown, and deeply notched with white; lateral feathers white, barred with blackish, these bars becoming irregular on lateral feathers and reduced to a few freckles on outermost ones; feathers of crown and hind neck almost uniform ashy brown, slightly mottled with darker brown centers; lores dusky, surmounted by a distinct white eyebrow; sides of face white, slightly streaked with dark brown; ear-coverts uniform dark brown along their upper edge; cheeks and throat white; sides of neck, lower throat, fore neck, and chest ashy, varied with shaft-lines of brown; remainder of under surface pure white; sides of upper breast ashy brown; lateral under tail-coverts with blackish shaft-streaks and a few frecklings of black; under wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases; axillars white, with a few irregular bars