Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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Moult. A specimen killed by Meyer at Limbotto in July, 1871, is shedding its remiges 
(0 1970). 
Eggs. 4; creamy -white to buff in ground-coloui’, blotched and spotted with rich dark brown 
(often forming a zone at the large end), and -with miderlying shell-markuigs of pink- 
ish brown and grey; size 46.2 — 52 X 33.0 — 35.6 mm (from’.Seebohm 16). 
Nest. Sometimes close to water, or in a tuft of grass, or on a Httle piece of higher ground 
surrounded -with marsh: cunningly concealed amongst the heath and short herbage, 
the nest is a mere depression in the ground, lined with a few bits of dry grass or 
withered leaves (Seebohm 16). 
Distribution. Europe; Africa; Madagascar; Asia; America as a straggler — Florida 
(Audubon /S); through the East Indies, to Austraha. — In the Oelebesian area: 
Minahassa (Meyer J5); Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten 4, Eosenb. 15, Kiedel e 9, 
Meyer 75); Bonthain (S. Miiller 4)\ Palima and Lu-«ru CWeber 25); Saleyer Island 
(Everett g 1). 
The Greenshank is a wide-spread migrant, ranging from North Europe and 
North Asia south to Cape Colony and Australia. It is absent from New Zealand, 
but it has been known to straggle to Florida. It breeds in Northern Europe, 
in some places in Scotland and the Hebrides, and v. Middendorff (25) observed 
it nesting plentifully on the eastern slopes of the Stanowoi Mts., N. E. Siberia, 
while it was not rare on the marshes down to the coast. This is the only record 
of its breeding in Siberia given by Taezanowski (25). Through S. E. Siberia 
from Irkutsk to the Sea of Japan Dybowski and Godlewski observed it only 
in the spring and autumn migrations. In Bering Island Stejneger (f3) says 
it occurs regularly in the spring migration; Nikolski only saw it on migration 
in Sakhalien; Campbell (24) records it as extremely common in spring and 
autumn in Corea, though Kalinowski speaks of it as common there in passage 
in autumn, rare in spring. It winters in China — in the Lower Yangtse basin 
according to Styan (22), and at Swatow according to De La Touche, though 
it does not stay at Foochow. In Celebes Meyer (13) got it in summer, viz. 
at Kakas in June and at Lake Limbotto in July. These individuals were of 
course left out of the general migration; why, it is impossible to say. One is 
before us ($ Limbotto, July) and is in winter plumage, assuming fresh remiges. 
Ordinarily the bird is most likely only a winter visitor to the island. 
From the allied species which occur in Celebes with it the Greenshank 
may he distingnished on the wing by its large size, its white lower back and rump, 
its dark wings in which no white tips or band are present, and the loud piping 
call of “yo-yo-yo” with which it starts up and repeats vociferously. 
326. TOTANUS OALIDKIS (L.). 
Common Redshank. 
a. Scolopax calidris (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 245. 
Totanus calidris (1) Bechst., Orn. Taschenb. 1803, U, 284; (II) Naum., Vog. Deutschl. 
1836, Vin, 95, 1. 199; (III) Grould, B. Europe IV, pi. 310 (1835); (IV) id., B. Gt. Brit. 
Meyer & Wigleswortli, Birds of Celebes (Dec. 4tb, 1897). Qg 
