The Philippine Jownal of Science 



1918 



Macrorhamphus semipalmatus ( Jerdon) . Fig. 2. 



Macrorhamphus semipalmatus Ridgway, Man. N. A. Bds. (1887), 

 151; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Bds. (1898), 4, 257. 



Macrorhamphus taczanowskii Shakpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 159; 

 Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam (1916), 2, 62 (Siam, 

 September 1). 



A female Oriental dowitcher was collected at Obando, Bula- 

 can Province, Luzon, on October 21, 1912. Measurements of 

 this specimen (No. 13280) are as follows: Wing, 169 milli- 



Fig. 2. MacTorhamphua semipalmatus ( Jerdon ) . Actual size. 



meters; tail, 65; culmen, 84; tarsus, 47; middle toe with claw, 

 37. 



Concerning this species Blanford says : 



Distribution. This rare bird breeds somewhere in Siberia, its breeding- 

 haunts being, however, unknown, and a very few individuals have been 

 obtained in Mongolia, China, and Japan. [Blanford here cites the fol- 

 lowing records: One from Madras, four from Calcutta, two from Pegu, 

 one from Rangoon, and one from Raipur.] 



Habits &c. Not known, but the bird is doubtless a feeder on worms 

 or small Crustacea burrowing in the mud. So far as known no Indian 

 specimen, except perhaps Jerdon's, has been obtained on the sea-coast. 



