Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 761 



Moult. A specimen Idlled by Meyer at Limbotto in July, 1871, is shedding its remiges 

 (C 1970). 



Eggs. 4; creamy white to buff in ground-coloui-, blotched and spotted with rich dark brown 

 (often forming a zone at the large end), and with underlying shell-markings of pink- 

 ish brown and grey; size 46.2 — 52 x 33.0 — 35.6 mm (from Seebohm 16). 



Nest. Sometimes close to water, or in a tuft of gi'ass, or on a Httle piece of higher ground 

 surrounded with marsh: cunningly concealed amongst the heath and short herbage, 

 the nest is a mere depression in the ground, lined with a few bits of dry grass or 

 withered leaves (Seebohm 16). 



Distribution. Europe; Africa; Madagascar; Asia; America as a straggler — Florida 

 (Audubon f 2); through the East Indies, to Australia. — In the Celebesian area: 

 Minahassa (Meyer 13); Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten 4, Rosenb. 15, Riedel e 9, 

 Meyer 13); Bonthain (S. Miiller 4); Palima and Luwu ("Weber 26); Saleyer Island 

 (Everett g 1). 



The Greenshank is a wide-spread migrant, ranging from North Europe and 

 North Asia south to Cape Colony and Australia. It is absent from New Zealand, 

 but it has been known to straggle to Florida. It breeds in Northern Europe, 

 in some places in Scotland and the Hebrides, and v. Middendorff (25) observed 

 it nesting plentifully on the eastern slopes of the Stanowoi Mts., N. E. Siberia, 

 while it was not rare on the marshes down to the coast. This is the only record 

 of its breeding in Siberia given by Taczanowski (25). Through S. E. Siberia 

 from Irkutsk to the Sea of Japan Dybowski and Godlewski observed it only 

 in the spring and autumn migrations. In Bering Island Stejneger (f3) says 

 it occurs regularly in the spring migration; Nikolski only saw it on migration 

 in Sakhalien; Campbell (24) records it as extremely common in spring and 

 autumn in Corea, though Kalinowski speaks of it as common there in passage 

 in autumn, rare in spring. It winters in China — in the Eower Yangtse basin 

 according to Styan (22), and at Swatow according to De La Touche, though 

 it does not stay at Foochow. In Celebes Meyer (13) got it in summer, viz. 

 at Kakas in June and at Lake Limbotto in July. These individuals were of 

 course left out of the general migration; why, it is impossible to say. One is 

 before us (g Limbotto, July) and is in winter plumage, assuming fresh remiges. 

 Ordinarily the bird is most likely only a winter visitor to the island. 



From the allied species which occur in Celebes with it the Greenshank 

 may be distinguished on the wing by its large size, its white lower back and rump, 

 its dark wings in which no white tips or band are present, and the loud piping 

 call of "yo-yo-yo" with which it starts up and repeats vociferously. 



->-326. TOTANUS CALIDRIS (L.). 



Common Redshank; 



a. Scolopax calidris (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 245. 



Tetanus calidris (1) Bechst., Orn. Taschenb. 1803, n, 284; (II) Naum., Vog. Deutscbl. 

 1836, Vm, 95, t. 199; (III) Gould, B. Europe IV, pi. 310 (1835); (IVj id., B. Gt. Brit. 



Meyer & Wigleswo ith, Birds of Celebes (Dec, 4tl>, 1897). 96 



