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mandible yellowish green; feet olive-gray; iris dark brown.’ (Taczanow- 
skt.) Length, 215; culmen, 51 Ming, 136; tail, 56; tarsus, 29. 
“The yellow Hae to the lower atthe appears to me to be a sign 
of immaturity and winter plumage, as it seems to disappear entirely in 
breeding birds. 
“Adult female in breeding plumage.—Similar to the male, with less 
of the bronzy tint above; black streaks on upper surface and dusky streaks 
on throat less pronounced. Length, 241; culmen, 48; wing, 136; tail, 
56; tarsus, 25. 
“y oung male of the year —Similar to the adults, but with a much 
shorter bill, its base conspicuously yellow; mantle streaked with blackish ; 
scapulars marked with black almost as much as in the adult bird; upper 
tail-coverts and tail barred with dusky and pale rufous; greater coverts 
black, forming a band across wing; head, neck, and under parts as in the 
adult winter plumage, the throat not being streaked with dusky. “Bill 
blackish olive, yellowish olive at base of both mandibles; feet, including 
web, bright orange-yellow ; iris blackish brown.’ (Stejneger.) 
“Adult in winter plumage.—General color above light ashy gray, with 
obsolete whitish edges to scapulars and wing-coverts, especially the greater 
series ; lesser coverts distinctly black in the center ; alula, primary-coverts, 
and quills blackish, outer primaries with white shafts, inner primaries 
ashy toward the ends, with a white fringe; secondaries broadly tipped 
with white, and white along the inner web; inner secondaries ashy gray 
like the back, with blackish shaft-lines ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts like the back, the latter freckled and edged with ashy white; tail- 
feathers ashy gray, whitish at base, mottled with ashy; head and neck 
ashy gray; forehead and eyebrow white, becoming fulvescent above ear- 
coverts ; lores dusky ashy; sides of face whitish, streaked with ashy gray, 
the upper edge of ear-coverts uniform ashy; cheeks, throat, and under 
surface pure white; sides of neck and sides of upper breast ashy gray, 
the latter with a distinct dusky patch; axillars and under wing-coverts 
white ; feathers along edge of wing ashy gray; quills grayish below. ‘Bill 
dark brown, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; feet and toes yellow; iris 
brown.’ (Oates.)” (Sharpe.) 
This curious sandpiper was met with in considerable numbers on the 
tide-flats near Minglanilla, Cebu, in November, 1906. At or near high 
water the species was found, in company with Heteractitis, resting among 
the roots of mangrove trees and at such times it was no uncommon 
occurrence to kill several specimens of each species at one shot. As the 
rocky flats became exposed these birds scattered to feed and became more 
difficult to approach. The bill of the female is much longer than that 
of the male, but the plumage is similar in the two sexes. In a male 
taken November 20, the bill was black, except the relow base, legs bright 
orange-chrome, and nails black. 
