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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
“Bararanga nusahatan”, Talaut, Nat. Coll. 
“Kingkedudn kadio”, Siao, iid. 
“Lorie” (Shore-bird), Minahassa, iid., — many species having the same name. 
“Alalang”, Peling, iid. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Harting II\ Dresser X1‘, Salvador! 17, 44; 
Sharpe f 1. 
Figures and descriptions. Kittlitz a II\ Harting Il\ Dresser X.I', Seebohm a 10 (head 
— summer); Legge 45; Salvador! 47; Sharpe f 1. 
Adult in winter plumage. Above, together with sides of breast, drah-hrown, with paler tips 
to the feathers; wing-coverts and remiges darker brown, alula blackish, the greater 
wing-coverts margined and broadly tipped with white, inner primaries and outer 
secondaries partly wliite on outer web; tail-feathers dark drab, tipped with white, 
the outermost pair almost pure white; entire under-parts, with wing below, fore- 
head, cheeks and a mark above the ear-coverts white; in front of eye dusky, paler 
on lores; ear-coverts drab; “iris dark brown; hill black; legs bluish grey; feet black- 
grey” (cf, Kema, N. Celebes, 16. Aug. 1892: P.&F. Sarasin). 
Observation. All Celebesian specuuens seen by us are in winter or young plumage, or imper- 
fect summer phunage. 
Male in breeding plumage. A broad patch of black passing from the lores through and 
below the eye on to the ear-coverts; a bar of black from the eye above across the 
fore crown; anterior part of forehead wliite; head above russet; a broad band of rusty 
red across the breast; for the rest much as in winter plumage. 
Female in breeding plumage. It “differs from the male in lacking the black stripes over the 
fore croAvn and through the eye, these parts being brownish grey ; the breast is paler 
rufous, and the upper parts are rather darker and duller” (Dresser XI). 
Sexes. Equal in size (Hume 5). 
Young. Much like the adult in winter; the feathers above margined ivith pale buff, and in 
lieu of the pectoral band a buff spot on each side of the breast; bill, legs and toes 
lighter than in the adult (from Harting II). 
ments. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
forehead 
a. (C 895) 5) Dimbotto, July 71 (Meyer) 
139 
54 
39 
— 
b. (Sarasin Coll.) (J*, Kema, Aug. 16. 92 . . . . . . 
134 
53 
38 
22 
c. (C 3534) Minahassa (Eaber) 
143 
51 
38 
22.5 
d. (C 10910) near Manado, Aug.— Sept. 92 (Nat. Coll.) . 
— 
52 
37.5 
23 
e. (C 10941) near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 92 (Nat. Coll.) . 
134 
50 
38 
24.5 
f. (0 12651) Siao, 19. .Jxilv 93 (Nat. Coll.) 
136 
53 
36.5 
23.5 
(/. (C 13032) Kabruang, 8. Nov. 93 (Nat. Coll.). . . . 
139 
51 
38.5 
24 
A. (C 13031) Kabruang, 8. Nov. 93 (Nat. Coll.). . . . 
137 
50 
37.5 
23.5 
Observation. The specimens killed in the Minahassa in August and September (b, d, e) and 
the two shot at Talaut in November (g, Ji) are moulting their remiges, the longer 
primaries in the first four cases being old feathers and the inner primaries and some 
or all the secondaries new feathers, in some cases growing. At the same time the 
feathers of the upper surface are old and worn, and it is clear that on these parts 
the birds are in the woni plumage of summer. As to the under-parts it is more 
difficult to form an opinion, but the feathers are soft and in good condition; from 
this appearance, and from the cii'cumstance that notlung of the russet breast-band of 
the breeding plumage is seen, we conclude that the birds have ah-eady passed through 
the moult on this part. Therefore it is probable that the under plumage is moulted 
