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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
Eggs. Bering Island, where a few nests were discovered hy Dr. Stejneger, is the only 
spot fi'om where eggs are as yet knoAvn. Dr. Stejneger (8) describes them as 
resembling tliose of A. semipalmata, but larger*, somewhat deeper in gi'ound colour, 
in two examples more olive, in the others more buff; the spots in general smaller, 
herein more like eggs of A. hiaticula. Two of the nests contained three eggs; size 
in 7 examples: 36 — 37.25 X 26.5 — 27.25 mm. 
Nest. In a slight hollow in the ground between the stems of four Angelica archangdica, 
formed of the leaves and stems of this plant, and numerous seeds of the same 
(Stejneger 8 — nest from Toporkof Islet, Bering Is,, June, 1883). 
Distribution. N. America — Alaska (g 16, g 11<>“, 13); Asia from East Siberia and Kamtschatka 
(g 13) west to Turkestan (h 8, g 27) and Palestine (g lOj, south to Oman [g 20) and 
Aden (g 10, g 30); East Africa from Egypt (h 5) to the Somali coast (h IV), Lamu 
(g 22) and Zanzibar (b 10); India (Blyth ^ 12, Jerdon^rlO, g 12; etc.); Ceylon 
(Leggc g 10); Laccadive Is. (Hume g 6); Andamans (Tytler g 12, etc. 3, h 2); 
Nicobars (Hume & Davis, h 2); Burmah (Oates g 14); Teuasserim (Davison 2); 
Malay Peninsirla (Kelham g 13, Hume 4); China (Swinhoe 1, David g 7, etc.); 
Japan (Blakiston, etc. b 11); Hainan (Swinhoe ^ 10); Phihppines (Everett, etc. 
g 11, g 32); Borneo (Schwaner, etc. g 25); Sumatra (f. Salvadori g 34); Java 
(Horsfield g 12); Celebes — (Rosenberg b 7), Goroutalo Distr. (Riedel g 21), 
Minahassa (Nat. Coll.), Baton Id. (S. Muller el, e 2); Moluccas — Moiiy, Hal- 
mahera, Ceram (f. Salvadori g 12); Papuasia — Waigiou, Salawatti, New Guinea, 
Aru, Louisiades, Duke of York Id., Admiralty Is., Torres Str. Is. (f. Salvadori 
g 12); N. Australia (E. P. Ramsay g 24, i 2). 
Couirt Salvadori (g 12) includes Madagascar in its range, but the species is 
not admitted by Hartlaub nor by Milne-Edwards & Grandidier. 
The present species, always distinguishable by its much smaller bill and 
tarsus from its near ally, A. geoffroyi, has a range somewhat similar to that bird, 
but it is known to occur much further north in Asia. Severtzow observed 
it breeding in Turkestan, and Stoliezka also noticed it apparently breeding 
there, but its nest, like those of other Aegialitis-s^eciefi, is most difficult to fin d, 
and Dr. Stejneger alone has as yet succeeded in finding the eggs, viz. in 
Bering Island, where the bird is very plentiful in summer. In autumn it mi- 
grates south, visiting Aden, as Barnes observed; Ceylon, according to Legge, 
in numbers in September and October; India; passing through China in spring 
and autumn, as shown by the remarks of David and De La Touche; and oc- 
curring as a winter visitor, rare apparently, in the East Indies. But, as in the 
case of A. geoffroyi and many other migrants, some individuals appear to remain 
in the tropics throughout the year; Salvadori records an example killed on 
an island in Torres Straits in May, and another from Halmahera in July, while 
Hume and Davison (h 2) show that many remain on the Andamans all the 
year round, and Butler noticed that this was the case at Kurrachee in regard 
to A. motigola and a number of other waders. But the opinion expressed by 
the latter observer (and it is also suggested by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway 
touching Strepsilas interpres in the words : “Do birds after they have become old, 
effete, or barren, prefer to stay in a warm climate?” — Water B. N. Am. I, 123) 
