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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 



VOL. 64. 



43. RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnaeus). 



A good series from Koelawi, January 30-February 10, 1917; and 

 Rano Lindoe, March 3-25, 1917. 



Mathews *^ recognizes an eastern race of the well-known Wood 

 Sandpiper, claiming that it is smaller and paler, but after carefully 

 comparing an equal number of adults of both supposed races, I am 

 unable to appreciate any tangible differences in support of his con- 

 tention, either in plumage or size. 



I have taken four adult specimens of each sex from the two ex- 

 tremes of the range of the species and carefully measured them, with 

 the following result : 



Eight adults, west. 

 Eight adults, east. 



Middle 

 toe. 



mm. 

 26.8 

 28.6 



44. CAPELLA MEGALA Swinhoe. 



One male and four females, Toli Toli, December 10-18, 1914; five 

 males and four females, Rano Lindoe, March 7-23, 1917. 



45. SCOLOPAX CELEBENSIS Riley.« 



One male, Rano Rano, December 22, 1917. 

 tion is as follows : 



The original descrip- 



Similar to Scolopax saturata but russet notches on primaries much larger and 

 deeper in color ; wing and culmen longer. Wing, 188 ; culmen, 86.5 mm. 



Mr. Raven found this woodcock inhabiting bamboo thickets in the mountains 

 of the type locality, where they only come out at night to feed. The only 

 specimen he succeeded in recovering had been badly eaten by ants, as it had 

 been shot the evening before, and made into a ronsh pkoleton. The flight 

 feathers had been left on the wing and seme feathers around the base of the 

 bill and the end of the tibia. The flight feathers alone show this to be a very 

 distinct species of woodcock, quite different from Scolopax saturata and more 

 like rnsticota, having the russet notches on both webs of the primaries, but of 

 a much deeper color ; the wing-coverts are of a different pattern, the russet 

 darker and confined to notches along the border not bars, the rest of the 

 feather brownish-black, like the primaries. 



Judging from the plate °'* and remarks, Scolopax rusticola mira Hartert ap- 

 proaches the Celebes species, but the latter has a much darker wing, and as the 

 former is supposed to be a resident on the Island of Amami in the northern 

 Riu Kiu group, it is not likely to reach Celebes. 



<8 Birds Australia, vol. 3, pt. 3, 1913, p. 230. 

 *» Proc. Biol. See. Wash., vol. 34, 1921, p. 55. 

 «> Nov. Zool., vol. 24, 1917, p. 437, pi. 2. 



