Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



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m. Limonites ruficoUis (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXTV, 545, 767. 



For further references cf. Salvad. d 8; Stejneger k 1\ Taczanowski 13; Sharpe ml. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould f I, g /; Seebohm I 1; Pallas c J; Temminck d J; 

 Salvador! d 8; Stejneger kl (diagn.); Taczanowski 13; Sharpe ml. 



Winter plumage. Above drab, with dark brown centre-streaks on head above, back, scapulars 

 and wing-coverts; rump and upper tail-coverts blacker, white at the sides; tail 

 dark brown, paling into grey on the lateral feathers; outer upper wing-coverts 

 dai'k brown, the greater series tipped with white; remiges dark brown, shafts white 

 (only partly so on 2°* to 4"" primaries), the inner primaries and the secondaries edged 

 with white, increasing in extent inwardly so as to absorb almost all of the inner 

 secondaries; tertiaries dark brown; lores and ear-coverts brownish; supraloral 

 and superciliary region, cheeks and entire under-parts white; under wing- 

 coverts white, barred wdth brown at edge of wing; "iris brown, bill and feet black" : 

 Guillem. d 11 (Timor: Riedel — C 6288). 



Summer plumage. The feathers of the upper-parts with black centres broadly edged with 

 ferruginous; cheeks, fore-neck and jugulum ferruginous, sides of breast with short 

 streaks of dark brown, the rest as in winter (Q, Eubi, New Guinea, May 1873: 

 Meyer — 910). 



Remark. A specimen from Great Sangi (0 7560) is in almost complete winter dress with 

 some remains of summer plumage on the upper parts; whUe C 910 and another killed 

 at Rubi at the same time are in incomplete summer plumage, with remains of winter 

 plumage. 



Middle -g^ gggij 



Measurements. Wing Tail Tarsus toewitli pXien 



18 



17 

 19 

 17.5 

 19 



17 



a. (0 7650) Gt. Sangi (Meyer) 1 101 



b. (C 1941) 9, Limbotto, Celebes, July, 71 (id.) ' 



c. (0 5418) cf, N. Bohol, Nov. 1877 (Everett) . 



d. (C 5424) 2, N. Bohol, Nov. 1877 lEverett) . 



e. (C 6289) Timor (Riedel) 



f. (C 6288) Timor (id.) 



g. (C 910) 9, New Guinea, June, 73 (Meyer) , 

 h. (C 908) cT, New Guinea, June, 73 (id.) . . 



Eggs and nest? On the Taimyr River (74° N.) von Middendorff (f 2) found a nest with 

 4 eggs, catching the female at the same time. The eggs he speaks of as gi-eenish 

 brown, spotted ; found in a depression in the moss of the marshy hollow, and scarcely 

 20 paces from a pool. The nest was bedded only with dry willow leaves, appai-ently 

 ■wind-driven. Taczanowski (13) held these to belong to his Tringa minuta orientcdis, 

 a supposed subspecies, as to the validity of which we are in doubt. 



Distribution. Bering Id. (Stejneger A- 1); E. Siberia (Pallas a 1, Middendorf, etc. 13); 

 Sakhalien (Nikolski 13); Km-ile Is. (Snow f 11); Japan (Henderson, etc. f 11); 

 Corea (Campbell 10); China (David 3, Styan 5, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe d 8); 

 Hainan (Styan 12); PhiUppines — Bohol (Everett d 5), Negros and Cebu (Bourns 

 & Worcester 14), Palawan (Platen 13, Whitehead 6, 8); Borneo (Schwaner, 

 Everett, etc. 7); at sea near Cochin China (Swinhoe yi); Malay Peninsula (Hume 

 d 6); ?Andamans and Nicobars (Hume & Davison f 6); Java (S. Miiller etc. f 3); 

 Sumba (ten Kate f 12); Flores (Weber f 13); Timor (S. Muller f 3, Riedel); 

 Saleyer (Everett 16); Celebes — (Forsten f 3), Limbotto (Meyer f8, Rosenberg 

 f9); Great Sangi (Meyer d 10); Moluccas — Halmahera, Weeda, Makian, Morty, 

 Ternate (Salvadori d 8, d 15), Buru (Rosenberg /" ff'"); Papuasia 



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