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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



present species is known only as far as the Moluccas. Both alike are absent 

 in America and New Zealand, but are distributed over nearly all parts of the 

 Old World. As shown by Mr. Dresser the Wood Sandpiper has been known 

 to breed in England, it breeds more or less plentifully in Norway, Sweden, 

 Denmark, Holland, parts of Germany, Finland, North Russia. Seebohm (M, 

 23) found it extremely common in summer in the valleys of the Yenesei and 

 Obi; V. Middendorff (36) says it nests somewhat numerously in N. Siberia 

 on the Boganida, Prjevalsky records it (36) as nesting in Ussuriland, Nikolski 

 in Sakhalien, Stejneger (22) in Bering Island. According to Dybowski and 

 Godlewski (36), Prjevalsky (36), Abbe David (Jl), Swinhoe (15) and 

 De La Touche (35) it passes over Lake Baikal, Lake Khanka, and China, 

 as a bird of passage. In winter Legge remarks (15) that it is extraordinarily 

 abundant in Ceylon, and adds that "at the end of April, and during the first 

 week in May, they collect in very large flocks and fly northward during the 

 night; and one year on the 28"" April immense numbers passed over Colombo 

 after dark, piping loudly". Oates finds it less abundant in Burmah. Whitehead 

 (29) sjaeaks of it as fairly common in the migratory season in Borneo. It is, 

 apparently, a fairly common winter visitor to the Celebesian group, and we 

 have three in winter plumage killed by Meyer at Limbotto in July, which, 

 probably, had remained there through the summer. 



The present species may be easily distinguished, even in flight, from Actitis 

 hypoleucos by the absence of the white cross-band on the remiges; from T. calidris 

 by the absence of the white terminal half of the secondaries; from T. glottis by 

 its small size and brown (not white) lower back and rump. Its nearer relative 

 T. ochropus has the lower rump and upper tail-coverts pure white (as against 

 the middle part of the tail-coverts only in glareola), and its legs and feet greenish 

 blue or bluish green. 



GENUS HETERACTITIS Steju. 



Diifers from Totanus chiefly by its short legs and more pointed wing. 

 Tarsus a little longer than the middle toe and claw, but shorter than the bill, 

 and only about Vs the length of the wing ; secondaries less than half the wing- 

 length; no white on tail or rump. 



Migratoiy; found chiefly on the coasts and islands of the Pacific. 



T 328. HETERACTITIS BREVIPES (VieilL). 

 West Pacific Sandjiiper. 



a. Totanus brevipes (1) VieilL, Noiiv. Diet. VI, 410 (1816); (2) Swinh., Ibis 1863, 407; 

 (3) Rams., Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, I, 375; (4) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203; (5) 

 Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 208; (6) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 59; (7) Sharpe, 



