Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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etc. 8, 14, 29); India (Jerdon, etc. 13); Ceylon (Holdsworth 13); Andamans 
(Hume & Davison 6); Bvarmah (Oates etc. 15); Tenasserim (Davison 9); Malay 
PeninsxUa (Hume 11); Sumati-a (Baffles cl); Java (Horsfield b 1, 34, Kulil & 
V. Hasselt fl, Vorderman !(?''“); Borneo (Doria & Beccari 22, Everett 34); 
Philippines — Palawan (Whitehead 21, 24), Bohol (Everett 10), Hegros (Steere 25), 
Mashate (Bourns & Worcester 32); Celebes — Goi'ontalo Distr. (Biedel 19), 
Minahassa (Faber, P. & F. Sarasin i 1), Luwu (Weber f 2); Moluccas — Morty 
and Halmahera (Bernstein f 1, 14); Ceram (Biedel 16, 28); Australia — Queens- 
land and N. S. Wales (Gould II, Bamsay hi). 
The Terek Sandpiper is known to breed in North Russia and in North 
Siberia, in the latter country on the banks of the Wilui, a tributary of the 
Lena (31 ). In S. E. Siberia, Sakhalien and Bering Id. it is known only as a 
migrant; on the south shores of the Sea of Ochotsk von Middendorff observed 
it through the summer in flocks composed chietiy of females, but they were not 
breeding. In China and Japan it seems to be a bird of passage (8, 27, 29, 
g 2). It winters in some abundance in Pegu and in the Andamans (15, 6), 
but in 1880 Legge knew of only one specimen killed in Ceylon, though 
Dr. Sharpe (34) records a second in the British Museum. In the East India 
Islands few specimens have been obtained, though Bernstein met with some 
success in finding it in September and November, 1861, in Halmahera and 
Morty, as shown by seven specimens in the Leyden Museum collected by him. 
As to Celebes in 1886 W. Blasius placed on record an unlabelled speci- 
men to all appearance collected by Riedel in the Gorontalo District in 1866 
— 1867. Weber got four examples from Luwu in February, 1889, as shown 
by Biittikofer; and two from the Minahassa, one obtained by Faber and the 
other by the Sarasins, are described above. 
The Terek Sandpiper, the type of the genus Terekia, seems to have its 
nearest affinities with Actitis, and might be described as an Aetitis with a long 
drawn-out and recurved bill. Its toes are also more webbed, the outer toe 
being connected up to the first joint, the inner toe about Vs as far; it is said 
to swim and dive well when wounded. It wants the white bar across the re- 
miges seen in Actitis, but has the terminal part for one centimeter and much 
of the inner webs of the secondaries white. As to its haunts Meves remarks 
that it might almost he called the River-sandpiper. Its habits are well described 
by this writer, by Hoffmannsegg and Henke, and by Liljeborg in Sharpe 
and Dresser (IV). 
GENUS TRINGA L. 
These are small Limicolae, with a soft Snipe-like bill, but only about as 
long as the tarsus or less, and the toes webless (cleft to their base). The nasal 
groove extends into the terminal third of the bill, which is slightly widened at 
the tip; a small hallux is present; the middle toe with claw is about as long 
