Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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Lake Limbotto, but has, apparently, been much more rarely obtained on the 
better known Lake of Tondano. In Australia Gould found it feeding on insects 
and small shelled snails; it runs with grace and celerity, but flies heavily, 
uttering a plaintive piping cry. Its long red legs are adapted for wading, and 
by them and by its black and white plumage it may be easily distinguished 
from other Celebesian birds. 
Seebohm (22) recognised 11 species of Stilts and Avocets, of which the 
latter, numbering 5 species, are usually separated generically (Eecurvirostra) 
in virtue of their webbed feet and remarkably thin and strongly upcurved bills. 
The present species has, perhaps, its nearest connections with the Hmantopus 
candidus Bonn, of temperate Europe, Africa, and Asia, but may be distinguished 
from it and the other similar Stilts by its entirely white head. In H. candidus 
and the others the black of the hind neck passes on to some part of the crown 
or face. But the distribution of the black and white on the head and neck appears 
to change in a remarkable way with age, and might form a profitable field for 
study. In New Zealand a melanotic form occurs, producing a young one much 
like the young H. leucocephalus. 
GENUS TOTANUS Bclist. 
Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, transversely scutellated before 
and behind; a small hallux; bill longer than the head, slender, straight, or 
slightly recurved or decurved, no dertrum, but the nasal groove never encroach- 
ing into the terminal third; the loral plumes growing considerably in front of 
the gape; tail longer than the tarsus or equal to it, white at least at the base, 
as are often the lower back and rump also; wing rather long, about twice the 
length of the shorter secondaries, the inner secondaries much lengthened. 
Migratory; almost cosmopolitan. 
325. TOTANUS GLOTTIS (L.). 
Greenshank. 
a. Scolopax glottis (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 245; (2) Gm., S. N. 1788, I, 664. 
b. Scolopax nebularius (1) Gunner, in Leem, Lap. Beskr. 1769, 251 (fide Stejneger). 
c. Totanns canescens (1) Gm., S. N. 1788, I, 668. 
Totanus glottis (Ij Bechst. , Orn. Taschenb. 1803, H, 287; (II) Naum., Vog. Deutschl. 
1836, Vm, 145, t. 201; (III) Gould, B. Europe IV, pi. 312; (4) Schl., Mus. 
P.-B., Scolopaces, 1864, 61; Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 97; (6) Salvad., Cat. 
Ucc. Borneo 1874, 328; (7) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 234; (8) David & Oust., 
Ois. Cliinc 1877, 462; (9) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 463; ('70^ Oust., Bull. 
Soc. Philom. 1878, 186; (11) Milne-Edw. & Gran did. , Ois. Madag. 1879, I, 630; 
(12) Bosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 278; (13) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 143; (14) Legge, 
B. Ceylon 1880, 840; (15) Eosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (16) Seeb. , B. Gt. 
Brit. 1885, m, 149; (17) id., Distr. Charadr. 1887, 355; (18) Everett, J. Str. Br. 
