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pale edges, greater coverts with white tips; alula, primary-coverts, and 
primaries blackish brown; second@fies 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 brown; lower plumage white, 
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). 
BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER, 
Tringa platyrhyncha TEMMINCK, Man. d’ Orn. (1815), 398. 
Limicola platyrhyncha SwHarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 612; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; OatTes, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 59; 
McGrecor and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 
Bohol (Hverett) ; Cebu (McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Negros (Steere Exp.) ; 
Palawan (Platen). Northern Europe and Siberia, Mediterranean and Red Seas; 
in winter China to Indian Peninsula and Moluccas. 
“Adult male in winter 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 dusky 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 
