Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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LIV, 351; (18) Grant, Ibis 1896, 126; (19) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 273, 
745; (20) Hart., Xov. Zool 1896, 598. 
Figures and descriptions. Walden J; Seebolim a 6 (head); Hume 5; Schlegel a 2; 
Swinhoe d 1] Sharpe 19. 
Adult. Forehead and superciliary region white; a bar across the fore crown, lores 
and ear-coverts blach; rest of head above and nape brown-rufous; chin, cheeks, 
throat, a narrow collar round hind-neck, and entire under-parts white; a 
cervical collar, nearly (sometunes quite) meeting on jugulum, black, duslder above 
mantle; remaining upper-parts drab-brown with pale tips, tlie greater wing- and 
primary -coverts broadly tipped with white, the others less conspicuously; remiges 
dark bro-wn, the shafts white, all, except the external primaries, tipped with white, 
and the five inner primaries white on the outer webs, except towards tip; tail dark 
brown, the three outermost feathers pure white: legs pale (Banjermassing, Borneo: 
v. Schierbrand — C 12402). 
Female. Without the black frontal band, the black on mantle, hind-neck, and sides of neck 
replaced by brown (Sharpe 79). 
Young. Differs from the adult in wanting the black markings on the head and in having 
the cervical collar brownish rufous, not black (Banjermassing: v. Schierbrand 
0 12403). 
A second and younger specimen from Timor (Riedel — 0 6261) has the inner 
quills more broadly tipped with white than in the adult bird, the upper parts broadly 
bordered with very pale brown (wood-brown), the least wing-coverts with whitish tips, 
the other wing-coverts more conspicuously edged and tipped with white. 
measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
forebead 
100 
40 
29.5 
15.5 
99 
45 
29.5 
15.5 
97 
43 
27.5 
13.5 
94 
41 
27.5 
13.5 
speckled and 
a. (C 3529) ad., Minahassa (v. Faber) 
b. (0 12402) ad., S. Borneo (v. Schierbrand) 
c. (0 12403) imm., S. Borneo (v. Schierbrand) 
d. (0 6261) juv., Koepang, Timor (Riedel). 
Eggs. 3; “of a buff colour, thickly blotched with sepia at the larger end, 
marked to a lesser degree all over with the same colour and fighter grey; sometimes 
they are speckled and streaked all over without any blotches at the large end; size 
33 X 24 mm” (Whitehead 12). 
Nest. Xone. On the sand-spits and bays round the coast of North Borneo. The eggs are 
placed in the full glare of the burning sun amongst the sea-drift (Whitehead 72). 
Distribution. Java (Kuhl & v. Hasselt a 2, Vriese a 2); Borneo (S. Muller, etc. a 2, 77), 
Labuan, Tega and Mengalan Is. (Everett 7.9); Philippines — Leyte and Bohol 
(Everett 5), Negros, Siquijor and Mindanao (Steere 14), Sooloo Sibutu 
(Everett 79); N. Celebes — Minahassa (Wallace 19, Fischer a 4, Faber), 
Gorontalo Distr. (Meyer 4), Macassar (Wallace 7); Lombok (Vorderman 77, 
Everett 29); Timor (Riedel in Dresden Mus.); Semao (S. Muller a 2). 
Mr. Whitehead remarks that the present species is a resident in Borneo and 
Palawan. There can be little doubt that such it is also in the other East India 
Islands in which it occurs. From its characters it may be termed a slight 
modification of A. cantiana of Europe and Asia, or rather of the cantiana-groxip 
of Plovers, consisting of the tj^ical form, dealbata of China and Formosa, minuta 
Seeb. (not of Pallas) of the coast of the Red Sea and Ceylon, nivosa of North 
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