Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 775 



etc. 8, 14, 29); India (Jerdon, etc. 13); Ceylon (Holds worth 13); Andamans 

 (Hume & Davison 6); Burmah (Gates etc. 15); Tenasserim (Davison 9); Malay 

 Peninsula (Hume 11); Sumatra (Raffles c 1); Java (Horsfield b 1, 34, Kuhl & 

 V. Hasselt fl, Vorderman iff*'"); Borneo (Doria & Beccari 22, Everett 34); 

 Philippines — Palawan (Whitehead 21, 24), Bohol (Everett 10), Negros (Steere 25), 

 Masbate (Bourns & Worcester 32); Celebes — Gorontalo Distr. (Riedel 19), 

 Minahassa (Faber, P. & F. Sarasin i 1), Luwu (Weber f 2); Moluccas — Morty 

 and Halmahera (Bernstein f 1, 14); Ceram (Riedel 16, 28); Australia — Queens- 

 land and N. S. Wales (Grould II, Ramsay h 1). 



The Terek Sandpiper is known to breed in North Russia and in North 

 Siberia, in the latter country on the banks of the Wilui, a tributary of the 

 Lena (31). In S. E. Siberia, Sakhalien and Bering Id. it is known only as a 

 migrant; on the south shores of the Sea of Ochotsk von Middendorff observed 

 it through the summer in flocks composed chiefly of females, but they were not 

 breeding. In China and Japan it seems to be a bird of passage fS, 27, 29, 

 (J 2). It vsdnters in some abundance in Pegu and in the Andamans (15, 6), 

 but in 1880 Legge knew of only one specimen killed in Ceylon, though 

 Dr. Sharp e (34) records a second in the British Museum. In the East India 

 Islands few specimens have been obtained, though Bernstein met with some 

 success in finding it in September and November, 1861, in Halmahera and 

 Morty, as shown by seven specimens in the Leyden Museum collected by him. 



As to Celebes in 1886 W. Blasius placed on record an unlabelled speci- 

 men to all appearance collected by Riedel in the Gorontalo District in 1866 

 —1867. Weber got four examples from Luwu in February, 1889, as shown 

 by Biittikofer; and two from the Minahassa, one obtained by Faber and the 

 other by the Sarasins, are described above. 



The Terek Sandpiper, the type of the genus Terekia, seems to have its 

 nearest affinities with Actitis, and might be described as an Actitis with a long 

 drawn-out and recurved bill. Its toes are also more webbed, the outer toe 

 being connected up to the first joint, the inner toe about Vs as far; it is said 

 to swim and dive well when wounded. It wants the white bar across the re- 

 miges seen in Actitis, but has the terminal part for one centimeter and much 

 of the inner webs of the secondaries white. As to its haunts Meves remarks 

 that it might almost be called the River-sandpiper. Its habits are well described 

 by this writer, by Hoffmannsegg and Henke, and by Liljeborg in Sharpe 

 and Dresser (IV). 



GENUS TRINGA L. 



These are small Limicolae, with a soft Snipe-like bill, but only about as 

 long as the tarsus or less, and the toes webless (cleft to their base). The nasal 

 groove extends into the terminal third of the bill, which is slightly widened at 

 the tip; a small hallux is present: the middle toe with claw is about as long 



