Trynga ruficollis Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs (1776), 3, 700.
Limonites ruficollis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24,
545; Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 27.
Ti-út ti-út, Bantayan.
Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Calayan (McGregor);
Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Luzon
(Meyer, Whitehead); Mindanao (Mearns, Celestino); Negros (Bourns &
Worcester); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp.). Eastern
Siberia, Japan, and Korea; in winter Burmese countries to
Australia.
"Adult in winter plumage.--Resembles the winter plumage of L. minuta,
but distinguished by the whiter fore neck and chest, and by the
slightly shorter tarsus. Length, 145; culmen, 18; wing, 96; tail,
42; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 18.
"Adult male in summer plumage.--Much more mottled on the upper
surface than in winter, the centers of the feathers being blackish,
and upper parts overspread with a brighter chestnut color, with which
the feathers are broadly margined; crown blackish, washed with rufous
and mottled with gray margins; forehead and eyebrow shaded with bright
rufous, this color occupying entire sides of face, sides of neck,
throat, and chest; chin whitish. 'Bill and feet black; iris nearly
black.' (Dybowski.) Length, 135; culmen, 18; wing, 98; tail, 43;
tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 19.
"Adult female in summer plumage.--Does not differ materially from the
male, but is perhaps scarcely so rufous, and retains a little more of
the hoary gray of the winter plumage. 'Iris brown.' (Everett.) Length,
127; culmen, 18; wing, 99; tail, 43; tarsus, 19; middle toe with
claw, 18.
"Young.--Scarcely distinguishable from the young of
L. minuta." (Sharpe.)
"Frequently seen in large flocks during the winter months." (Bourns
and Worcester MS.)
Of the stints that visit the Philippine Islands in winter the Asiatic
little stint undoubtedly occurs in greater numbers than all the others
taken together; it is the only abundant species and is usually found
in large or small flocks on tide-flats.