782 Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



Kei, Aru, New Guinea, Duke of York Id., New Britain (Salvadori d 8); Islands of 

 Torres Straits (McGill. d 8); Pole Id. (D'Albertis d 8); Australia and Tasmania 

 (Eamsay d 14); Pelew Islands (Mus. Godef. d 16). 



This form of the Little Stint has an extremely long, but, so far as is known, 

 a somewhat restricted range in respect of longitudinal breadth. Its extreme 

 northern limits are not known, for even in Bering Island Stejneger found it 

 to be only a bird of passage, which arrived in May and passed on to some 

 other place. It would appear from the remarks of Pallas and Middendorff 

 that some probably remain to breed in the countries washed by the Sea of 

 Ochotsk. It descends to Sakhalien, according to Nikolski's observation (13)., 

 in enormous bands at the end of August. Middendorff remarks that the birds 

 he found in the far North of Siberia, to which the afore-mentioned eggs belong, 

 differed from those of the east, and Taczanowski (13) has separated them as 

 T. minuta orientalis, a form wanting the ferruginous on the jugulum, sides of 

 neck and cheeks. If a good species, and not the immature T. rujicollis, its range 

 would appear to be somewhat more central than that of T. riificoUis. Southward 

 the latter pursues its way in autumn through China (David 3, De La Touche 

 11) and Japan (fll), and onward through the East India Inlands as far as 

 Australia and Tasmania. A certain number no doubt winter in the Archipelago, 

 but we suspect that Mr. Whitehead's remark touching Borneo is largely true 

 for the other tropical islands — that, while it winters in small flocks, it is "like 

 all the rest of the Sandjjipers, only common, or apparently so, during the time 

 it is actually moving south or north". From Limbotto Meyer records it in 

 July. Swinhoe (j 1) got it on board ship near Cochin China on May 14"", 

 1872. From the Indian countries it has not yet been recorded, but Mr. Hume 

 could point to no safe mark of distinction between this species and T. minuta 

 (which occurs there) when they are both in winter plumage. Col. Legge affirms 

 that r. ruficolUs is a larger bird with a proportionally larger foot and tarsus, 

 having a pure white chest and a greater extent of white on the forehead, as 

 well as a greyer upper surface. 



GENUS CALIDRIS Guv. 



Easily distinguishable from Tringa and other small Stints by its having no 

 hallux. The bill, Snipe-like in character, though short, ensures its distinction 

 from the small Plovers. Migratory; almost cosmopolitan. 



^334. ? CALIDRIS ARENARIA (L.). 



Sanderling. 



a. Tringa arenaria (1) Linn., S. N. 176G, I, 251 (from Willugliby); (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., 

 Scolopaces, 1864, 55; (3) Kosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (3'''') "W. Bias., J. f. 0. 



