798 Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



brown notches, which are whiter and better defined on the secondaries and wing-coverts ; 

 a mesial stripe of whity-brown along the head above; hind -neck striated with pale 

 brown; lower back and rump white, with subterminal heart-shaped or sagittate 

 brown spots and dusky bases to the feathers; upper tail-coverts ban-ed with brown 

 and fulvous white or pale brown; tail hair-brown, crossed with about eight bars of 

 darker brown; alula, primaries and their coverts blackish, the coverts and inner quills 

 tipped with Avhite, the outermost with the shaft white; superciliary stripe, face, 

 neck, jugulum and breast fulvous, streaked with brown, brownest on ear-coverts, 

 lores, and sides of breast; remaining under-parts whitish, clear on the middle 

 of the abdomen, chin and upjier throat, barred with rufous brown on sides, flanks 

 and under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred with haii'-brown 

 and white; "iris dark brown; bill brownish black, below at base reddish grey": 

 Stejneger fl (Main, Minahassa, 2:^ Febr. 1894: Nat. Coll. — C 13251). 



Young. In the young the pale brown notches on the back, scapulars and wing-coverts of the 

 adult have the form of round spots arranged in pairs on opposite sides of each feather ; 

 the bars on the tail are of about equal width (in the adult the dark bars are narrower) j 

 the mesial streak on the head above seems to be smaller (juv., Kema, 14. Sept. 1892: 

 P. &F. Sarasin, and others). 



Observation. There seems to be no particular difference between \vinter and summer plumage. 



Moult. We have specimens moulting their remiges in November (Kabruang, C 13050) and 

 February (C 13251). Others killed in April, May, June, July seem to have a per- 

 fect wing. 



Measurements. Wing (in 26 expls. from the East Indies) 112—151 mm; tail ca. 80 — 100; 

 tarsus ca. 58; middle toe with claw ca. 38; exposed culmen (straight) 77 — 100 mm. 

 Probably the female is considerably larger than the male. 



Eggs. Unknown if 2, f 3). 



Distribution. East Siberia from Kamtschatka to Lake Bailcal (Taczanowski f 3); Bering Id. 

 (Stejneger f 1); Sakhalien (Nikolski f 3); Corea (Kalin. f 3); Japan (Blakiston, 

 etc. d 11); China (Swinhoe 2, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe 2); PhiUppines (Sonnerat, 

 Everett 2, Steere d 10, Platen 7); Borneo (Schwaner, etc. 2, 6); Sumatra (S. MiilL, 

 etc. d 4, 2); Java (Horsfield, Diard d 4, 2); Banka (v. d. Bossche d 4, 2]\ Billi- 

 ton and Mendanau (Vorderman d 12, d 13); Lombok (Vorderman d 14); Sumba 

 (Riedel, ten Kate 12, 13); Flores (Semmelink d 4, 2, Wallace 16); Timor 

 (S. Miiller d4, 2); Celebes — Buton (S. Miiller d 2), Bonthain (S. Muller d 4), 

 Gorontalo Distr. (Rosenb. d 8), Minahassa (For sten rf 4, etc.), Manado tua (Meyer, 

 Nat. Coll.), Mantehage and Banka (Nat. Coll.), TaUssi (Guillemard e 5); Sangi 

 Is. — Siao (Meyer 5, Nat. Coll.j, Gt. Sangi (Bruijn e 3, Platen 4, Nat. Coll.); 

 Talaut Is. — Kabruang (Nat. Coll. 13); Sula Islands (Wallace 16); Moluccas — 

 Morty, Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, Batchian, Burn, Ceram, Amboina, Ceramlaut, 

 Goram (fide Salvadori 2); Papuasia — Guebeh, Waigiou, Obi major, Salawatti, New 

 Guinea, Timorlaut, Kei, Aru, Jobi, Admiralty Is., Duke of York, New Britain, 

 Solomon Is., Yule Id., Is. of Torres Str. (fide Salvadori 2); Mysol (Wallace and 

 Rosenberg 16); Australia and Tasmania (Ramsay e 6); Polynesia — New Caledonia, 

 Fiji Is., Carohne Is., Pelew Is., Marianne Is. (f. Wiglesw. 10). 



The Eastern Whimbrel offers in some respects a case parallel to Limosa 

 novaezealandiae , but in its winter migration it keeps more to the western side 

 of the Pacific and to the East India Archipelago, and it is not known from New 

 Zealand. Corresponding differences separate both from their Euro-Asiatic allies. 



