"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.
Totanus damacensis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1821), 13, 192. Limonites damacensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 553; Hand-List (1899), 1, 163; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 28. Pisobia damacensis A. O. U. Committee, Auk (1908), 35, 367.
Basilan (McGregor); Luzon (Heriot); Mindanao (Mearns); Palawan (Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). Japan, eastern Siberia, islands of Bering Sea, China to northeastern Bengal; in winter Burma to Australia.
"Adult male in winter plumage.--Similar to the winter plumage of L. minuta and L. ruficollis, but darker than either of them, with the head and neck much more thickly spotted with black, and the lower throat and fore neck very distinctly streaked or mottled with brown. The species can of course be distinguished from both of the above species by its long toes.