Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 783 



1883, 127; (4) Seebohm, Distr. Charadr. 1887, 432; (5) id., B. Japan 1890, 336; 

 (6) Wiglesw., Aves Polyn. 1892, 64. 



Calidris arenaria (1) Illig., Prodr. 1811, 249; (11) Naum., Vog. Deutschl. 1834, VII, 353, 

 t. 182; (III) Newton, P. Z. S. 1871, 56, pi. IV, fig. 2 (egg); (III"") Dresser, B. Eur. 

 1877, Vm, 101, pis. 559, 560; (4) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 467; (^5; Legge, 

 B. Ceylon 1880, 1220; (6) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, n, 398; (7) Baird, Brew. 

 & Ridgw., Water B. N. Am. 1884, 1, 249; (8j Everett, Ibis 1890, 465; (9) Wilson, 

 B. Sandwich Is. pt. rH, 1892; (10) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 499; (11) Tacz , 

 Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, IV, 841; (12) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 541; (13) Newton, 

 Diet. B. pt. in, 1894, 803; (14) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 526, 766. 



For synonymy and further references of. most of the above-cited works. 



Figures and descriptions. Naumann /J, Dresser 77/'"'', Seebohm a 4 (woodcut); Legge 5; 

 Taczanowski 11; Sharpe 14; etc., etc. 



Immature in autumn plumage. Above mealy white, shghtly huffy on head and some parts 

 of upper surface, with broad sagittate black centres on mantle, back and scapulars, 

 the head above broadly streaked, the forehead, sides of head finely lined with black, 

 hind neck gi-eyer; middle of rump and upper tail-coverts greyish brown, huffy towards 

 tip with a narrow terminal line of black; wing-coverts dark brown, the middle ones 

 chiefly buffy white, the greater series broadly tipped with white forming a cross-band; 

 remiges externally black, unexposed inner webs grey, shafts white, except at tip; 

 tail-feathers greyish brown, edged and tipped with white, the lateral feathers paling 

 almost into white; all the under-parts white, shghtly tinged with buff on sides of 

 breast; no hind toe; "iris brown; bill black; legs and feet black" (Legge 5); 

 wing 121 mm, tail 50, tarsus 25, middle toe with claw 20, exposed culmen 24.5 (cf, 

 Dresden, 3. Nov. 1894: Schwarze — Nr. 14328)'). 



Winter plumage. In winter the adult differs from the young in having the upper-parts 

 cinereous with dark streaks, the face and forehead white Hke the under-parts. 



Summer plumage. In summer the adult differs from the young in winter in having the 

 broad white borders of the feathers of the upper-parts replaced by rusty red (the 

 centres being black) and the head, throat and breast are rusty red with streak-spots 

 of black. 



Eggs. 4; oblong pyriform; bro^\^lish olive, marked with faint spots and small blotches of 

 bistre, a Httle more numerous about the larger end; size circa 34 X 24.5 mm (from 

 Newton 777 and B., B. & R. 7 — from near the Anderson River, America, 68° N. — 

 MacFarlane). 



Nest. That in which the above eggs were found is said to have been of hay and decayed 

 leaves ^777^. 



Distribution. Europe; Africa; Madagascar; Asia; America. — E. Siberia (Middend. etc. 11); 

 China (David 4, Swinhoe, De La Touche iO); Japan (Blakiston, etc. a 4); India 

 (Hume, etc. 5); Ceylon (Legge 5); Burmah (Armstrong 6); Cochin China (Tiraud 

 6); N. Borneo (Everett 8, 12, 14, Pretyman 14); Java (Kuhl & v. Hasselt a 2); 

 ?N. Celebes — Limbotto (v. Rosenberg a 3); Marshall Is. (Finsch a 6); Sandwich 

 Is. (Wilson S). 



In Rosenberg's list (a 3) of the birds collected by him at Lake Limbotto 

 from August 11 'Uo September 14^ 1863, and January 5"^ to February 3^ 1864, 



1) This specimen, which was shot by K. Schwarze of the Dresden Museum on the strand of the Elbe, 

 affords the first record of the occurrence of the Sanderling in Saxony. 



