Birds of Celebes: Charadiiidae. 



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Adult male in winter plumage. Head above, mantle, scapulars, tertiaries and wing- 

 coverts dark brown (hair-brown), with borders to the feathers of fulvous white or 

 wliite, very broad on the wing-coverts, forming deep notches on the tertiaries and 

 scapulars; hind-neck grey, with obscure dark centres; lower back brown with 

 fulvous tips; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail barred with dark brown and 

 white; metacarpal and primary coverts and remiges blackish brown, the inner 

 primaries and secondaries paler and bordered with white; sliafts of remiges white, the 

 exposed tips thereof blackish; supraloral stripe to above the ear-coverts whitish; 

 face wliitish, striolated with brown; fore-neck and breast pale buff-brown, with 

 dark shaft-streaks cliiefly at the sides; remaining under-parts buff-white, a few 

 brown spots and shaft-streaks on the under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries, the former with horse-shoe bars, the latter with u-regular bars of grey- 

 brown; primaries below grey mottled on basal half of inner web with whitish; 

 "bill reddish white, tip black; feet slate-blue" (P. & F. Sarasin); iris "dark brown": 

 Stejneger (a', Kema, 23. Oct. 1893: P. & F. Sarasin). 



This specimen has some of the cinnamon-tinted feathers of breeding plumage 

 still left on forehead, lores and cheeks and upper throat. 



Female in winter. Larger than the male. The tail is grey-brown in this example, mottled 

 with white towards its base (Q, S. Island, New Zealand, Oct. 1872 — 4715). 



According to Seebohm fg 2) in the western form of tliis Godwit, L. lapponica 

 (L.), "the tail of the young in first plumage, and of the adult in summer plumage, 

 is always barred. Adults in winter plumage have plain tails, but those of birds of 

 the year occasionally show traces of bars". The male described, Uke a second l)efore 

 us (Bohol, Nov. 1877) seems to be still wearing its summer tail. 



Breeding plumage. In breeding plumage the bird has the face and under-parts rufous, the 

 fore-neck, under tail-coverts, etc. more or less marked with brown; the upper-parts 

 varied with rufous instead of white. 



Sex. Se.xual differences in this form have not received much attention since Middendorff 

 pointed out (e 2) that the female, besides being much larger than the male, has a 

 longer and flatter forehead (this we should think depends upon the size of the bill), 

 a straighter bill, the upper tail-coverts with the white bars never washed with rusty; 

 the belly variable — greyish white, or with black sagittate spots, or with rusty 

 streaks, or unspotted. 



Young. Much like the adult in winter (cf. Buller V, Taczanowski i 2). 



Eggs. 



(from measurements given by Stejneger i 1, Taczanowski i 2, and rf North 

 Celebes, and Q New Zealand). 

 According to v. Middendorff 2 or 3 to a sitting; one figured is ovate, dusky olive 

 with irregular black spots; size 56 X 38 mm [e 2). Messrs Baird, Brewer and 

 Ridgway fh Ij describe two eggs as deep greenish drab and pale drab respectively 

 in ground-colour, the blotches on the former being of a dilute umber, much more 

 pronounced in the second specimen; size 57 X 36 — 37 mm. 



A rounded depression in a sedge tussock, with a lining of dry grasses (Dall hi 

 — Alaska). 

 Distribution. Alaska (Dall h 1, Nelson a 10); Bering Id. (Stejneger i 1); Prijbilof Is. 

 (Elliot h 1); Aleutian Is. (Nelson k 2); East Siberia to the Taimyr River (Midd., 



Nest. 



JTpyer S- W i nl ps worth, liirds of Celebes {Dec. itb, ls97l. 



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