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Birds of Celebes; Charadriidae. 
IV, pi. 54 (1870); {5) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Scolopaces, 1864, 65; (Q) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
Vm, 96; (1) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 328; {8} Hume, Str. F. 1874, H, 
299; (IX) Dresser, B. Eur. 1875,Vin, 157, pi. 567, f. 1 , pi. 568, f.2,pl.569; ('iOJ David 
& Oust., Ois. Ohine 1877, 464; (11) Bosenb., Malay, iij-clup. 1878, 278; (12) Hume 
& Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 464; (12^‘^) Hume, ib. 1879, VEH, 70; (13) Tweedd., 
P. Z. S. 1879, 73; (14) Legge, B. Oeylon 1880, 852; (15) Bosenb., Zool. Garten 
1881, 167; (16) Ward! Bams., Tweedd. Orn. Works, Index 1881, 660; (17) Oates, 
B. Brit. Bnrniali 1883, H, 404; (18) Guillem., P. Z. S- 1885, 561; (19) Seebobm, 
Brit. B. 1885, HI, 140; (20) id., Distr. Oharadr. 1887, 353; (21) W. Bias., Omis 
1888, 320; (22) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 208; (23) Steere, List Ooll. 
B. & M. Philipp. Is. 1890, 26; (24j Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 59; (25) Seeb., B. Japan 
1890, 321; (26) Hagen, T. Hed. Aard. Genoots. 1890, (2) VH, 164; (27) Styan, Ibis 
1891, 507; (28) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 500; (29) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s 
Bciso in Ost-Ind. 1893, IH, 283; (30) Tacz., Faune Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 866; 
(31) Bns. & Worces., B. Menage Exped. 1894, 31; (32) Newton, Diet. B. 1894, 774; 
(33) Hart., Nov. Zool 1896, 180; (34) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 414, 758. 
“Lori” (Sandpiper), Minahassa, Nat. Ooll. 
For further synonymy and references confer Naumann 71; Dresser 7X; Legge 14\ 
Taezanowski 30’, Sharpe 34, etc. 
Figures and descriptions. Naumann 77; Gould 777, 7F; Dresser 7X; Legge 74; Seeb. 
19, 20] Oates 77; Taezanowski 30] Sharpe 34, etc., etc. 
Winter plumage. Above drab -brown, the inner wing-coverts and tertiaries edged with whitish 
and notched with dark brown bars; lower back and rump white; upper tail- 
coverts and tail white barred with brown; primary coverts and primaries dark 
brown; secondaries and adjacent parts of the inner primaries white, the basal 
parts of the feathers more or less brown, primary coverts broadly tipped with white 
where they lie upon the white of the secondaries; sivpraloral stripe white passing 
to above the eye; lores and ear-coverts drab; cheeks and under-parts white, 
clouded with brown on sides of breast, streaked with broum on cheeks, jugulum, 
breast, and flanks, taking an irregular bar-shape on sides of breast, under tail-coverts 
and edge of wing below; “iris reddish or yellowish brown; bill black, upper mandible 
with the base as far as the nostril reddish, and nearly half the under mandible red 
(the amount of red variable); legs and feet orange-red, joints in some greyish”: 
Legge 14 (Tondano neighbourhood, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll — C 10957). 
Moult. The specimen described has remains of sunamer plumage, the tertiaries, some feathers 
on the mantle, scapulars and wing-coverts being old feathers of that season. The 
remiges are new. We conclude that its moult must have commenced immediately 
after the breeding season (probably the end of June or beginning of July), and that 
it would have lasted in this specimen till at least the end of September. As Naumann 
points out (II), the Bedshank moults twice a year. 
Breeding plumage. In summer the upper-parts are greenish drab, with streaks of blackish 
on the head, neck, and mantle, and irregular bars on the other upper-parts; lower 
back etc. as in winter white; below wliite, striated with brown on throat and fore 
neck, ta.king more the form of drop-streaks on breast and sagittate spots on sides; 
remiges as in winter (Semipalatinsk, Siberia — Nr. 11300). 
Measurements. W^ing 150 — 164 mm; tail 54 — 70; tarsus 45 52, middle toe with clan 30.5 
—34; bill from gape 47—51 mm (from Legge 14 and Taezanowski 30). 
Eggs. 4; pyriform; ground-colour very pale buff to rich ochraceous buff, spotted and blotched 
with rich dark brown, with underlying spots of paler brown and grey; size 42—48 
X 30—33 mm (from Seebohm 19). 
