"Female in summer plumage.--Similar to the male but has not quite so much bright rufous in the plumage, the fore neck being barred with blackish. Length, 203; culmen, 27; wing, 124; tail, 49; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 20. "Young.--Somewhat similar to the winter plumage of the adult but not so uniform above; entire under surface pure white, as also the forehead and sides of face; center of forehead mottled with blackish to base of bill; a dusky streak between bill and eye, as well as along upper edge of ear-coverts; on sides of breast and on fore neck a tinge of vinous-buff or vinous; sides of upper breast and of neck distinctly spotted with black; upper surface black, mottled with spots of white or sandy whitish, these spots being mostly terminal on back and scapulars; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy with a sandy buff tip and a subterminal spot of black, and fringed at the tips with a narrow blackish line, giving the rump the appearance of being lined transversely with black; feathers of head blackish, varied with brown or whitish edges, and forming a more or less distinct cap, which is separated from mantle by the light color of hind neck; mantle ashy streaked with dusky brown; wings much as in the winter plumage of the adult but the greater and median coverts, and inner secondaries mottled like the back." (Sharpe.) A male taken near Manila in March measures: Wing, 118; tail, 52; exposed culmen, 24; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 19. Genus PISOBIA Billberg, 1828. Bill slender and straight, a little longer than tarsus; hind toe small and elevated; small sandpipers about 127 mm. in length. Species. a1. Outer tail-feathers pale smoky or ashy brown. b1. Feet blackish; middle toe with claw not over 19 mm. c1. Tarsus slightly more than 20 mm.; sides of face and throat slightly rufescent in summer; rufous color predominating over the black above. ... minuta (p. 134) c2. Tarsus shorter, about 19 mm.; entire throat and chest bright rufous in summer. ... ruficollis (p. 135) b2. Feet olive-brown; middle toe with claw about 23 mm. ... damacensis (p. 136) a2. Outer tail-feathers pure white. ... temmincki (p. 137) 113. PISOBIA MINUTA (Leisler). LITTLE STINT. Tringa minuta Leisler, in Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. (1812), 1, 74; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 273, fig. 63 (head). Limonites minuta Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 538; Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 52; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27. Mindanao (Mearns). Northern Europe and northern Asia to Lake Baikal; in winter Africa, Indian Peninsula, and Ceylon.