Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 7§7 



Avhen that is done peacefully floating outside the breakers" (1). To the orni- 

 thologist, also, who has never watched them in life, the Phalaropes are interest- 

 ing birds in virtue of the strongly pronounced seasonal change of plumage, of 

 their Coot-like feet, and from the circumstance, which Naumann suspected in 

 part and which Prof. Newton now states definitely, that the male undertakes 

 the duty of incubation, when it sits so fast that it only leaves the nest to escape 

 being trodden upon ; moreover, it is the female which wears the brighter, hand- 

 somer plumage and is the larger bird. The same conditions are found in Turnix 

 and Centrococcyx. These facts, of which there are very few examples in ornithology, 

 prove that a higher development of plumage and ornament on the one hand and 

 the so-called maternal instincts on the other are not exclusively connected with sex. 



GENUS LIMICOLA K.L.Koch. 



Plumage like that of a Snipe. Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw, 

 shorter than the bill. The bill is very high at the base, flat in the middle, 

 and decurved towards the tip. It differs from the Snipes by its short toes, and 

 the eye not being set far back in the head; from the Stints by its plumage 

 and bill. A single species ranging from the north of the Palaearctic Region to 

 Celebes and the Moluccas in winter. 



^336. LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temm.). 

 Broad-billed Sandpiper. 



a. Tringa platyrincha (1) Temm., Man. d'Oni. 1815, 398. 



h. Limicola pygmaea (Bechst.); (1) Koch, Baier. Zool. 1816, 316; (2) Kadde & "Walter, 

 Omis 1889, 114, 232, 277. 



c. Tringa platyrhyneha (1) Meyer & Wolf, Orn. Taschenb. 1822, HI, 259; (2) Schl., Mus. 



P.-B., Scolopaces, 1864, 49; (3) Hume, Str. E. 1873, I, 244; (4) id., ib. 1874, 11, 

 298; (5) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 470; (6) Seeb., Ibis 1884, 33; (7) id., 

 Distr. Cbaradr. 1877, 433; (8) id., B. Japan 1890, 337; (9) Styan, Ibis 1891, 

 330, 506; (10) Gatke, Vogelwarte Helgol. 1891, 525; (11) Styan, Ibis 1893, 437; 

 (12) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise 1893, IH, 283; (13) Newton, Diet. B. 

 pt. m, 1894, SI 3. 



d. Limicola hartlaubi (1) Verr. in Vinson's Voy. Madag. Annexe B. 1865, 5; ('2J Hartl., 



Vog. Madag. 1877, 322. 



Limicola platyrhyneha (1) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 322; (II) Dresser, B. Europe 

 Vin, 3, pi. 545 (1876); (3) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 461; (4) Wald., 

 P. Z. S. 1878, 712; (4»'') Hume, Str. P. 1879, VHI, 158; (5) Legge, B. Ceylon 

 1880, 896; (6) Wardl. Earns., Tweedd. Orn. Works 1881, 660; (7) Oates, B. Brit. 

 Bui-mah 1883, H, 387; (8) G-igl. & Salvad., P. Z. S. 1887, 586; (9) W. Bias., 

 Omis 1888, 319; (10) id.. Ibis 1888, 374; fWJ Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 

 207; (12) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 59; (13) Steere, List CoU. B. & M. Pliilipp. 1890, 

 26; (14) Sharps, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 612, 769. 



For further synonymy cf. Dresser //; Sharpe 14. 



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