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 Himantopus leucocephalus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1837), 26; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 317; Hand-List (1899), 1, 156; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 24.

Basilan (McGregor); Mindanao (Cuming, Everett, Steere Exp., Celestino). Greater Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Australia, New Guinea.

Male.—A narrow black collar on hind neck; entire wings, their coverts, and scapulars glossy black; rest of the plumage white. Bill and nails black; legs and feet bright red, said to be pink in life. Length, about 350; wing, 220; tail, 77; exposed culmen, 59; tarsus, 126.

Female.—Smaller and the scapulars dark brown. Wing, 210; tail, 75; exposed culmen, 58; tarsus, 110.

“Young.—Brown on the upper back and inner secondaries; the hind neck, from the nape to the mantle, ashy gray, mottled with dusky subterminal bars to the feathers; crown dull ashy gray; lores and fore part of face white like the under surface of the body.” (Sharpe.)

The stilt, even at a considerable distance, is easily recognized by its very long, slender, red legs. I observed a solitary individual in Malamaui Island near Basilan and Celestino collected a number of specimens in northern Mindanao.