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pale edges, greater coverts with white tips; alula, primary-coverts, and 

 primaries blackish brown; secondaries 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. <T Orn. (1815), 398. 



Limicola platyrhyncha SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 612; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 59; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 



Bohol (Everett) ; 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 



