_Trynga ruficollis_ Pallas, Reise versch. Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3,
1776, p. 700. (Type locality, "Circa lacus salsos Dauriae
campestris" = Kulussutai, southern Transbaikalia.)
_Tringa minuta_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 8, 118 (Pelew); Gray, Hand-list Birds, pt. 3, 1871, p.
50 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872,
pp. 89, 106 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
5, 36 (Palau).
_Tringa albescens_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 316
(Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Pelew).
_Limonites minuta_ Takatsukasa and Kudora, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62
(Pelew).
_Pisobia ruficollis_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8,
1919, p. 290 (Pelew).
_Pisobia minuta ruficollis_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 48 (Palau, Ulithi); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932,
p. 192 (Palau, Ulithi).
_Calidris ruficollis ruficollis_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 215 (Palau, Ulithi).
_Calidris minuta ruficollis_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945,
p. 45 (Micronesia); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no.
15, 1948, p. 54 (Rota, Peleliu).
_Geographic range._--Breeds from northeastern Siberia to
northwestern Alaska. Winters south from the Malay area to
Australia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Rota; Palau
Islands--Angaur, Peleliu; Caroline Islands--Ulithi.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 16 (4 males, 12 females), as
follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Rota, 1 (Oct. 20); Palau Islands,
USNM--Peleliu, 14 (Sept. 6-14)--Angaur, 1 (Sept. 21).
_Remarks._--The Little Stint is apparently a regular visitor to the
Palau Islands and a less common visitor to the Mariana Islands. At
Peleliu and Angaur the NAMRU2 party found these birds in small flocks
of 10 to 15 at tidal flats and at inland ponds. On tidal flats the
species appeared to remain apart from other kinds of shore birds, but at
inland ponds the Little Stint was found in company with other species.
On shooting into a mixed flock of shore birds at an island pond at
Angaur, the writer secured specimens of this species and also of _Erolia
acuminata_.
=Erolia subminuta= (Middendorff)