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latter with a few linear streaks of black ; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 white, bend of wing mottled with blackish bases; lower primary-coverts 

 dusky with whitish tips; quills dusky below. 'Bill blackish brown, 

 browner or reddish brown at angle of mouth, clear gray at base of lower 

 mandible; feet yellowish ocher-color, tinged with olive, darker on the 

 joints; iris dark brown.' (Dybowslci.) Length, 178; culmen, 28; wing, 

 137; tail, 53; tarsus, 30. 



"Adult female. Similar to the male. 



"Adult in winter plumage. Much browner than the summer plumage 

 and without any rufous except, perhaps, a slight tinge on the head ; under 

 surface white; lower throat and chest ashy fulvous with a few narrow 

 streaks and lines of blackish; flanks slightly washed with brown; on 

 under tail-coverts a few narrow mesial shaft-streaks of blackish. 



"Young birds. Much more rufous on upper surface even than the 

 breeding plumage ; back much blacker than in any other age of the bird, 

 intermixed with a great deal of rufous, and distinguished by the con- 

 spicuous whitish edgings to the dorsal feathers, scapulars, and inner 

 secondaries ; wing-coverts with broad margins of sandy rufous, and longi- 

 tudinal black centers; chin white; breast and abdomen white, sometimes 

 with a slight tinge of buff ; the lower throat, fore neck, and sides of breast 

 sandy rufous; fore neck and chest more ashy and uniform, so that the 

 black shaft-streaks are confined to the lower throat; those on the sides 

 of neck and sides of breast being a little broader." (Sharpe.) 



A rare winter visitant to the Philippine Islands. 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot, 1816. 



Bill long and slender, very slightly decurved and slightly expanded at 

 tip; culmen greater than tarsus, the latter longer than middle toe 



with claw. 



118. EROLIA FERRUGINEA (Briinnich). 



CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa ferruginea BRUNNICH, Orn. Bor. (1764), 53. 



Scolopax subarquata GULDENSTADT, Nov. Comm. Petrop. (1774), 19, 471. 



Ancylochilus subarquatus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 586; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 164; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 28. 

 Tringa subarquata BLANFORD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 278, fig. 64 



(head). 

 Erolia ferruginea A. O. U. COMMITTEE, Auk (1903), 20, 337. 



Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor] ; Luzon (Whitehead, Celestino) ; Negros 

 (Bourns d Worcester). Northern Siberia, south in winter to Africa, Indian 

 Peninsula, and Australia. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Above deep bay or dark cinnamon- 

 rufous; varied with whitish edges to feathers, which are mottled with 



