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pale edges, greater coverts with white tips; ahila, primary-coverts, and 

 primaries blackisli brown; secondaries brownish gray like back, but with 

 white borders outside and at the end; lower back and rump dark brown, 

 with white edges to the feathers; upper tail-coverts the same, but the 

 white borders are much wider, the white sometimes occupying the greater 

 part or the whole of the feathers ; tail ashy l)rown ; lower plumage \<'hite, 

 fore neck and upper breast streaked or spotted with dark brown. 



"In summer the plumage is blackish above, with whitish edges to the 

 feathers, the scapulars with large chestnut spots; upper and lower tail- 

 coverts white, with dark brown spots and bars; chin, throat, breast, and 

 flanks so thickly spotted as to be almost covered in the middle of the breast 

 with blackish brown; there- is no rufous on the lower plumage." 

 (Blanford. ) 



"Seen in small flocks along seashore in winter.'* (Bourns and Wor- 

 cester MS.) 



I have identified as of this species, a sandpiper collected by Major 

 Edgar A. Mearns. The field tag gives no locality but I believe the 

 specimen came from Mindanao. This and many other species of migra- 

 tory shore-birds will doubtless be found in considerable numbers when 

 more attention is paid to collecting them. 



Genus LIMICOLA Koch, 1816. 



Bill rather long and, except at base, flattened ; upper mandible slightly 

 decurved at tip and decidedly longer than lower mandible; exposed cul- 

 men greater than tarsus, the latter slightly longer than middle toe 

 with claw. 



120. LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temminck). 



BKOAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa platyrhyn-cJia Temminck, Man. d' Orn. (1815), 398. 



Limicola pJatyrhyticha Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 612; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 59; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 29. 



Bohol {Everett) ; Cebu [McGrego)-) ; Cuj-o {McGregor) ; Negros iSteere Exp.) ; 

 Palawan (Platen). Northern Europe and Siberia, Mediterranean and Red Seas; 

 in winter China to Indian Peninsula and Moluccas. 



"Adult male in ivinter plumage. — Above light ashy gray, somewhat 

 paler on the edges of the feathers, which have dusky brown centers ; 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, marginal ones dark brown; 

 median series blackish in the center with hoary white margins; greater 

 series dusk}' blackish edged with hoary gray, inclined to white at the 

 ends, and forming a narrow band across wing; alula and primary-coverts 

 black tipped with white, the latter broadly ; quills black, paler brown on 



