Birds of Celebes; Charadriidae. 
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Eggs. 4; pyriform; pale buff, speckled and streaked with surface spots of dark and light 
brow, with underlying markings of inky grey; size 29 — 30.5 X 21.6—22.9 mm (from 
Seebohm d 4). 
Nest. None; the bird “scratching a little hollow in the sand or shingle, which it treads into 
a very neat, round, shallow basin” (Seebohm d 4). 
Distribution. Europe; Africa down to the G-aboon and Mozambique; Asia; ? N. America 
(Alaska and coast of California); Pliihppines and Great Sunda Islands (see Dresser IZ, 
Legge 5, Taczanowski f 3, Sharpe g ITy, India (Jerdon, etc. 5); Ceylon 
(Legge 5); Burinah (Oates g 6]\ Tenasserun (Hume & Davison 4\ Malay Penin- 
sula (Hume g 4, Kelham g .5); China (David g 2, etc.); Corea (Campb. d 8)\ Japan 
(Blakiston, Pryer d G]\ Formosa (Swinhoe c 2)\ Philippines — Luzon, Leyte, 
Bohol, Negi-os, G-uimaras, Catanduanes, Mindanao, Palawan (Everett g Steere 
g 13, Bourns &Worccs. g 14, Whitehead g 7, g 16, etc.); Borneo (S. Muller 
kottley, etc. g 5); Java (Kuhl & v. Hasselt c 2, Boie c 2); Sumba (Doherty .9 IS); 
Celebes — Gorontalo Dist. (v. Rosenb. c 2), Minahassa (P.& F. Sarasin), Macassar 
(Weber dlO). 
In the eastern parts of Asia the Little Ringed Plover, according to 
Taczanowski, has not yet been found in Kamtschatka, and the limits of its 
northern range in E. Siberia are not yet known. Prjevalsky observed it breed- 
ing in Mongolia, and Taczanowski describes eggs from Dauria, and Nikolski 
affirms that it breeds in Sakhalien Island. In these territories it is only a 
summer visitor. Grodlewski remarks that it arrives in Dauria at the beginning 
of May and leaves at the end of September; in Mongolia Prjevalsky (3) ob- 
served its first appearance on April. Throughout China it is, according to 
David, extremely abundant, even in winter. As to its residence in winter, 
this remark probably has more strict reference to South China, for Sty an (d / ) 
describes it as common in the Lower Yangtse basin during migration in March, 
April and May, and again in September and October. In Southern China Mr. 
De La Touche (d9) observed it passing Foochow from the beginning of March to 
the beginning of May; it winters in Swatow. The southern migration seems to 
pass on across the China Sea, but in diminished numbers; in North Borneo 
Whitehead (g 11) speaks of it as “a winter visitor, generally seen singly or 
in pairs on the sea-coast”; in Palawan he first observed it on 30**^ July. Irom 
Celebes we are able to point only to 6 specimens : one in the Leyden Museum 
killed by Rosenberg at Lake Limbotto, 6*’* August, 1863; three obtained by 
the Drs. Sarasin late in the year in the Minahassa, as shown above, two in 
Prof. Weber’s collection from Macassar. 
The Little Ringed Plover has very close affinities with xi.jerdom, a species 
which seems to have often been confused with it in India, and about which 
there is still much obscurity. In India A. jerdoni has been reported as a per- 
manent resident (Hume N. & Eggs Ind. B. 1890, HI, 340), but A. curonica is re- 
corded as a breeding species there as well (perhaps through mistaken identity?), 
liegge believed that he discovered the eggs of A. jerdoni in Ceylon, but only 
knew A. curonica as a winter visitor there. Salvadori records A. jerdoni 
