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remainder of tail-feathers wliite ban-ed with blackish, the bars becoraing 

 more irregular on the lateral feathers, which have distinct bars only on 

 the outer webs. '^Bill blackish brown, lighter brownish gray toward base, 

 especially on lower jaw; feet 3^ellowish gray, joints bluish.' (Stejneger.) 

 Length, 305 : culmen, 53 ; wing, 190; tail, 76 ; tarsus, 56. 



''Adult female. — Similar to the male in color. 'Bill blackish brown, 

 basal half lighter, on upper mandible with a bluish, on lower one with a 

 reddish-gray tinge; feet dirty olive-gray, joints darker and more bluish 

 gray.' (Stejneger.) 



''Young after first molt. — Similar to the winter plumage of the adults 

 but more tinged with rufous-brown and with the feathers spotted with 

 whity brown on both webs; center tail-feathers white, distinctly barred 

 across with black, chest also distinctly streaked with dusky ; sides of breast 

 spotted and mottled Avith dusky brown." (Sharpe.) 



Genus RHYACOPHILUS Kaup, 1829. 



Bill straight; culmen equal to middle toe without claw but much less 

 than tarsus; rump white. 



111. RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnaeus). 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Tringa glareola LiyyjEVS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 



Rhyacophihis glareola Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 491; 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 162; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 48; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27. 



Basilan (McGregor) ; Bohol [Everett); Cagayan Sulu {M earns); Calamianes 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Bourns d Worcester, Mc 

 Gregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGi'egor) ; Luzon (Jagor, Meyer, 

 Everett, Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; 

 Negros (Steere Exp.) ; Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns d 

 Worcester); Ticao (McGregor) . Africa. Europe, and northern Asia; in winter 

 Indian Peninsula to Australia. 



"Adult male in tvinter plumage. — Above bronzy brown, with light ashy 

 bronze margins to the feathers, which are slightly spotted with white on 

 both edges; scapulars like back, but with somewhat larger white spots; 

 lower back and rump uniform brown, feathers of the latter edged with 

 white; upper tail-coverts pure white, lateral ones with l)lackish shaft- 

 streaks and irregular longitudinal markings; lesser wing-coverts uniform 

 brown; median and greater coverts spotted with white on both webs and 

 resembling the scapulars; alula, primary-coverts, and ([uills blackish 

 brown, fringed with white at tlie ends; secondaries notched with white 

 on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish intermediary bands; 

 center tail-featliers ashy brown, barred with blackish brown, and deeply 



