"Adult male in summer plumage.--Much more rufous than in winter; feathers of upper surface sandy rufous; black centers and white margins to many of the scapulars and feathers of the back; feathers of head rufous, with black centers; neck rufous, streaked with dusky blackish, these streaks being smaller and less distinct on sides of face, which are also rufous; a slight indication of a whitish eyebrow; under surface white, throat tinged with rufous, chest pervaded with ashy, and throat, fore neck, and sides of breast mottled with dusky spots in the centers of the feathers. Length, 152; culmen, 19; wing, 96; tail, 36; tarsus, 20.
"Adult female in summer plumage.--Similar to the male, but somewhat less distinctly spotted on the breast. Length, 152; culmen, 18; wing, 98; tail, 37; tarsus, 20.
"Young.--Blackish above, with rufous edgings to the feathers, and thus somewhat resembling the summer plumage of the adults, but they may always be distinguished by the more numerous white edgings to the dorsal and scapular feathers, by the ashy color of the hind neck, by the absence of spots on the fore neck and chest, both of which are tinged with isabelline-buff.
"Nestling.--Mottled with rufous and black down, the tips of which are silvery white or sandy buff; the hind neck sandy buff, forming a collar; the crown black, slightly mottled with rufous and dotted with silvery white, the black extending in a line on the forehead, which is buff, continued into a somewhat broad eyebrow; a black loral line and a black spot on each side of the hinder crown as well as on the ear-coverts; under surface of body whitish, with a tinge of sandy buff on the lower throat." (Sharpe.)
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.
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.