"Adult in winter plumage.--Much browner than the summer plumage and without any rufous except, perhaps, a slight tinge on the head; under surface white; lower throat and chest ashy fulvous with a few narrow streaks and lines of blackish; flanks slightly washed with brown; on under tail-coverts a few narrow mesial shaft-streaks of blackish. "Young birds.--Much more rufous on upper surface even than the breeding plumage; back much blacker than in any other age of the bird, intermixed with a great deal of rufous, and distinguished by the conspicuous whitish edgings to the dorsal feathers, scapulars, and inner secondaries; wing-coverts with broad margins of sandy rufous, and longitudinal black centers; chin white; breast and abdomen white, sometimes with a slight tinge of buff; the lower throat, fore neck, and sides of breast sandy rufous; fore neck and chest more ashy and uniform, so that the black shaft-streaks are confined to the lower throat; those on the sides of neck and sides of breast being a little broader." (Sharpe.) A rare winter visitant to the Philippine Islands. Genus EROLIA Vieillot, 1816. Bill long and slender, very slightly decurved and slightly expanded at tip; culmen greater than tarsus, the latter longer than middle toe with claw. 118. EROLIA FERRUGINEA (Brünnich). CURLEW SANDPIPER. Tringa ferruginea Brünnich, Orn. Bor. (1764), 53. Scolopax subarquata Güldenstädt, Nov. Comm. Petrop. (1774), 19, 471. Ancylochilus subarquatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 586; Hand-List (1899), 1, 164; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 28. Tringa subarquata Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 278, fig. 64 (head). Erolia ferruginea A. O. U. Committee, Auk (1903), 20, 337. Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead, Celestino); Negros (Bourns & Worcester). Northern Siberia, south in winter to Africa, Indian Peninsula, and Australia.