69. LIMICOLA. 613 



Norddeutschl. p. 118 (1869) ; Doderl. Avif Sicil. p. 191 (1869) ; 



Droste, Vogelio. Borkum, p. 232 (1869) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 38. 



fig. 11 (1870) ; Gould, B. Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 75 (1870) ; Salvad. 



Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 211 (1871) ; Collett, Norges Fugle, p. 87 



(1881) ; Gi(/l. Iconogr. Avif. Ital. no. 282 ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. 



Boss. p. 101 (1884) ; Frivaldsky, Av. Hung. p. 148 (1891). 

 Tringa eloroides, Vieill. X. Did. 'd'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 463 (1819). 

 Tringa pygiunea (nee Lath.), Savi, Orn. Tosc. ii. p. 291 (1829) ; 



Jaitb. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 469 (1859); Gray, Cat. 



Brit. B. p. 170 (1863: Norfolk); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 168 



(Calcutta) ; Palmen, Fail. Fogl. p. 217 (1873). 

 Pelidna platyrhincha, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 659 (1831) ; Bp. 



Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 50 (1838) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. 



Eur. ii. p. 206 (1867). 

 •The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Yarrell, Brit. B. ii. p. 638 (1843). 

 Limicola platyrhvncha, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mux. p. 107 (1844; 



India); Hartl.J.f. O. 1854, p. 160 (Cevlon) ; Dyb. J. f. O. 1873, 



]». 103 (Kultuk, Aug.) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 322 (1874) ; Dresser, 



B. Eur. viii. p. 3, pi. 545 (1876) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 



p. 254 (1876), ii. p. 157 (1877 : Poland) ; Hume fy Davison, Str. 



F. vi. p. 461 (1878 : Amherst) ; Hume, op. cit. vii. p. 487 (1878 : 



Calcutta) ; id. viii. p. 113 (1879) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind $c. p. 63 



(1879) ; Leqqe, B. Cei/lon, p. 896 (1880) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



]). 009 (1882 : Pomerania) ; Collett, Norges Fugle, p. 87 (1881) ; 



B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 167 (1883) ; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. 



Burm. ii. p. 387 (1883) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 252 



(1884) ; Gigl, Avif. Ital. p. 382 (1886) ; Salvad. Elenco Ucc. Ital. 



p. 217 (1886) ; Pleske, Uebers. Sdug. u. Vog. Kola-Halb. p. 342 



(1886) ; Gigl. § Salvad. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 586 ; Blasius, Orn is, 



1888, p. 319 (Palawan) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 563 (1889) ; 



Reichen. Syst. Verz. Vog. Deutschl. p. 49 (1889) ; Everett, Journ. 



Straits Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 207 (Palawan) ; Gir/l. Avif. Ital., 



1st Resoc. p. 585 (1889) : id. '2nd Resoc. p. 654 (1890) ;' id. 3rd 



Resoc. p. 513 (1891) ; Heine §■ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. 329 (1890 : Pomerania) ; Steere, List Birds fy Mamm. Exped. 



Ph Hipp. p. 26 (1890: Negros) ; Lilford, Col, Fig. Brit. B. 



|it. xxiv. (1893) ; Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, p. 170 (1894). 

 Linmicola pvgmsea (wee Lath.), Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxx. figs. 608, 



609 (1850). 

 Tringa (Limicola) pvgmrea (nee Lath.), Middend. Reis. Sibir., Zool. 



p. 223 (1851 : S. coast of the Sea of Ochotsk). 

 Limicola platyrvncha, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 92 (1854: 



Bengal). 

 Limicola hartlaubi, Verreaux, in Vinson's Voy. Madag., Ann. B, 



p. 5 (1865) ; Hartl. 77,,/. Mad,,,/, p. 332 (1877). 

 Tringa hartlaubi, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 49, no. 10306 (1871). 

 Limicola sibirica, Dresser, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 674 (Siberia and China) ; 



Iioqd. Consp. Ar. Imp. Ross. p. 101 (1884) ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. 



Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 924 (1893). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above light ashy 

 grey, somewhat paler on tho edges of the feathers, which have 

 dusky-brown centres ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 blackish, with slight remains of sandy-buff fringes ; sides of rump 

 and lateral upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts rather darker 

 than the back, the marginal ones dark brown, the median series 

 blackish in the centre with hoary white margins ; the greater series 

 dusky blackish, edged with hoary grey, inclining to white at the 



