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remainder of tail-feathers white barred with blackish, the bars becoming 
more irregular on the lateral iMfers, which have distinct bars only on 
the outer webs. ‘Bill blackish brown, lighter brownish gray toward base, 
especially on lower jaw; feet yellowish 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 with 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 (Linneus). 
WOOD SANDPIPER. 
Tringa glareola LINNEXUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 
Rhyacophilus glareola SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 491; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 162; OATES, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 48; Mc- 
GREGOR and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 27. 
Basilan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Hverett) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; Calamianes 
(Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 
Gregor); Guimaras (Steere Hap.) ; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Meyer, 
Everett, Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Eap., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; 
Negros (Steere Exp.) ; Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns &€ Wor- 
cester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns & 
Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; in winter 
Indian Peninsula to Australia. 
“Adult male in winter 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 blackish 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 quills blackish 
brown, fringed with white at the ends; secondaries notched with white 
on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish intermediary bands; 
center tail-feathers ashy brown, barred with blackish brown, and deeply 
