Genus TRINGA Linnæus, 1758. Bill straight, culmen longer than tarsus, the latter exceeding middle toe with claw; wing long and pointed, when folded reaching the tip of tail, the latter nearly square. Pisobia is somewhat similar to this genus but has a much shorter bill and the species are much smaller. 119. TRINGA CRASSIROSTRIS Temminck and Schlegel. ASIATIC KNOT. Tringa crassirostris Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica (1847), 107, pl. 64; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 600; Hand-List (1899), 1, 164; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 277; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 28. Mindanao? (Mearns); Negros (Steere, Bourns & Worcester). Eastern Siberia and Japan; in winter China to Australia and western Indian Peninsula. "Adult in winter plumage.--Similar to the winter plumage of T. canutus, being ashy gray above and white below, but easily distinguished by the longer bill and pure white upper tail-coverts; the dusky spots on chest and sides of body smaller and much more distinct. "Young.--Similar to the adult winter plumage but blacker, with conspicuous white margins to the feathers of the upper surface; rump and upper tail-coverts spotted with black, but not barred with dusky as in T. canutus; head like the back, black with white edges to the feathers, but scarcely any trace of a white eyebrow, the lores and sides of face being thickly spotted with black; throat white, unspotted; lower throat and fore neck light brown, mottled with black spots; upper breast and sides of body also plentifully spotted with black, the spots on the sides of the body being large and often arrow-shaped; axillars white, with marblings of pale ashy gray. "Adult male in breeding plumage.--Does not differ from the winter plumage to the same extent as in T. canutus; upper surface only slightly suffused with rufous; scapulars and inner secondaries more or less bright chestnut with black subterminal bars; under surface white; throat thickly streaked and fore neck so closely barred as to become almost black, these black bars extending on to breast and along the sides of body; the under tail-coverts spotted with black. 'Bill brown; feet gray; iris dark brown.' (Taczanowski.) Length, 267; culmen, 41; wing, 175; tail, 63; tarsus, 33. "Adult female in breeding plumage.--Similar to the male, but with less rufous. Length, 267; culmen, 43; wing, 190; tail, 67; tarsus, 33." (Sharpe.)