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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
present species is known only as far as the Moluccas. Both alike are absent 
in America and New Zealand, but are distributed over nearly all parts of the 
Old World. As shown by Mr. Dresser the Wood Sandpiper has been known 
to breed in England, it breeds more or less plentifully in Norway, Sweden, 
Denmark, Holland, parts of Germany, Finland, North Russia. Seebohm (14, 
25) found it extremely common in summer in the valleys of the Yenesei and 
Obi; V. Middendorff (36) says it nests somewhat numerously in N. Siberia 
on the Boganida, Prjevalsky records it (36) as nesting in Ussuriland, Nikolski 
in Sakhalien, Stejneger (22) in Bering Island. According to Dybowski and 
Godlewski (36), Prjevalsky (36), Abbe David (11), Swinhoe (15) and 
De La Touche (35) it passes over Lake Baikal, Lake Khanka, and China, 
as a bird of passage. In winter Legge remarks (15) that it is extraordinarily 
abundant in Ceylon, and adds that “at the end of April, and during the first 
week in May, they collect in very large flocks and fly northward during the 
night; and one year on the 28*’’ April immense numbers passed over Colombo 
after dark, piping loudly”. Oates finds it less abundant in Burmah. Whitehead 
(29) speaks of it as fairly common in the migratory season in Borneo. It is, 
apparently, a fairly common winter visitor to the Celebesian group, and we 
have three in winter plumage killed by Meyer at Limbotto in July, which, 
probably, had remained there through the summer. 
The present species may be easily distinguished, even in flight, from Actitis 
hypoleucos by the absence of the white cross-band on the remiges; from T. calidris 
by the absence of the white terminal half of the secondaries; from T. glottis by 
its small size and brown (not white) lower back and rump. Its nearer relative 
T. ochropus has the lower rump and upper tail-coverts pure white (as against 
the middle part of the tail-coverts only in glareola), and its legs and feet greenish 
blue or bluish green. 
GENUS HETERACTITIS Stejn. 
Differs from Totanus chiefly by its short legs and more pointed wing. 
Tarsus a little longer than the middle toe and claw, but shorter than the bill, 
and only about Vs the length of the wing; secondaries less than half the wing- 
length; no white on tail or rump. 
Migratory; found chiefly on the coasts and islands of the Pacific. 
328. HETERACTITIS BREVIPES (Vie ill.). 
I West Pacific Sandpiper. 
a. Totanus brevipes (1) VieilL, Nouv. Diet. VI, 410 (1816); (2) Swinh., Ibis 1863, 407; 
(3) 'Rams., Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, I, 375; (4) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203; (5) 
Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 208; (6) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 59; (7) Sharpe, 
