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remainder of tail-feathers white barred with blackish, the bars becoming 

 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 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 (Linnams). 



WOOD SANDPIPER. % 



Tringa glareola LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 



Rhyacophilus glareola SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 491; 



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



GBEGOB and WORCESTER Hand-List (1906), 27. 



Basilan (McGregor)-, Bohol (Everett); Cagayan Sulu ( M earns) ; Calamianes 

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

 Gregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang ( M cGregor ) ; Luzon (Jagor, Meyer, 

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

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

 cester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourn* d 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 



