Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 779 



i. Limonites damacensis (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 553, 767. 



For further references cf. Legge c 4; Stejneger hi; Taczanowski cl5\ Sharpe il. 



Descriptions. Middendorff cl (fig. of foot); Legge c 4; Gates c 5; Vorderman 14; 

 Stejneger hi (diagn.); Seebohm c7 (diagn.); Taczanowski c 15; Sharpe il. 



Winter plumage. Above broccoli-brown (grey-brown), varied with blackish brown centres to 

 the feathers; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly black, at sides white; wing- 

 coverts dark brown, the inner ones broccoli-brown, the greater series narrowly tipped 

 with white; remiges dusky, the outermost primary with a whitish shaft, the rest 

 with brown shafts (underneath white); superciliary and subocular regions 

 whitish, striolated with brown; lores and ear-coverts browner; jugulum and 

 breast whitish, bi-owner at sides and finely streaked with darker brown, clear on 

 cliin and middle of throat; remaining under-parts white, varied with grey-brown 

 at the sides, with dark brown and white on metacarpal under wing-coverts; "iris 

 dark brown; bill blackish, olive-brown at base of lower jaw; feet greyish yellow, 

 with joints darker olive" (Stejneger hi); wing 90mm; tail 39; tarsus 24.5; mid. 

 toe with claw 25; exposed culmen 18 (N. Celebes: Faber — C 3535). 



Summer plumage. In summer the grey-brown borders of winter plumage on the upper parts 

 are replaced with rufous; the feathers of the hind neck are broadly bordered with 

 buff, a wash of buff on jugulum, no ferruginous on fore neck and breast. 



Measurements. Wing 87 — 92 mm; tail 34 — 41; bill 17 — 20; tarsus 21—22; mid. toe with 

 claw 21.5 — 25.5 (from Taczanowski c 15). 



Eggs. Unknown. 



Distribution. Bering Id. (Stejneger h 1); N. E. Siberia (Middend. c /); Amurland (Maack, 

 etc. c 2, c 15); Baikal (Dyb. & Godh c 15); S. E. Mongolia (Prjevalsky c 3); Corea 

 (Kalin. c 8, c 15); Sakhalien (Nikolski c 15); Kurile Is. (Snow c 12); Japan 

 (Blakiston, etc. c 12); China (Swinhoe 1, 6, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe 2); India 

 (Hume, etc. c 4, g 7); Ceylon (Legge, etc. c 4); Burmah (Gates c 5); Tenasserim 

 (Davison g 2); Malay Peninsula (Hume g 4); Philippines — Luzon (Meyer g 1), 

 Palawan (Platen c -9); Borneo (Schwaner 4, Everett c 10, Whitehead c 11); 

 Banka (v. d. Bossche 4); Java (Horsfield a 1,\ Boie 4, etc.); N. Celebes — Mina- 

 hassa (Forsten 4, Faber in Dresd. Mus.), Gorontalo Disti-. (Forsten 4). 



The Long-toed Stint is a winter visitor to Celebes, perhaps only an irregular 

 one. Its nidification is as yet unknown, but in Bering Island Dr. Stejneger 

 found that, while most of the birds stay only a few days, going further north, 

 a small number remain over summer, breeding sparingly on the large swamp 

 behind the village; he did not, however, succeed in finding their nests. Nikolski 

 says that it certainly breeds in Sakhalien, and von Middendorff killed it near 

 the mouth of the Uda (Sea of Ochotsk) on June 30*''. Its winter haunts seem 

 to be Pegu, Ceylon, parts of India, probably the Siamese and Malay Peninsulas, 

 and the East Indies as far as Celebes, east of which it is not as yet known. 



T. damascensis may be easily distinguished from the Eastern Little Stint, 

 T.ruficollis Pall., by its much longer toes, which are yellowish in colour, not 

 black; by the shafts of its primaries being (except the outermost) brown, not 

 white above; by the broad blackish centres to the feathers of the upper surface in 

 winter, as against the greyer tint with dark shaft-streaks of ruficollis; and in 

 summer plumage by the absence on the throat and jugulum of the ferruginous 



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