Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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Limonites damacensis fl) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 553, 767. 
For further references cf. Logge c 4\ Stejneger hi', Taczanowski c 15\ Sharpe i 1. 
Descriptions. Middendorff el (fig. of foot); Legge c 4\ Oates c 5; Vorderman 14; 
Stejneger hi (diagn.); Seehohm cl (diagn.); Taczanowski c 15; Sharpe i 1. 
Winter plumage. Above broccoli-hroAVTi (grey-brown), varied with blackish brown centres to 
the feathers; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly black, at sides white; wing- 
coverts dark brown, the inner ones broccoh-brown, the greater series narrowly tipped 
with white; remiges dusky, the outermost primary with a whitish shaft, the rest 
with brown shafts (underneath white); superciliary and subocular regions 
whitish, striolated with brown; lores and ear-coverts browner; jugulum and 
breast whitish, browner at sides and finely streaked with darker brown, clear on 
chin and middle of tliroat; remaining under-parts white, varied with grey-brown 
at the sides, with dark brown and white on metacarpal under uung-coverts; “iris 
dark brown; bill blackish, olive-broAra at base of lower jaw; feet grejush yellow, 
with joints darker olive” (Stejneger h 1); wing 90 nun; tail 39; tarsus 24.5; mid. 
toe with claw 25; exposed culmen 18 (N. Celebes: Faber — C 3535). 
Summer plumage. In summer the grey-brown borders of winter plumage on the upper parts 
are replaced with rufous; the feathers of the hind neck ai-e broadly bordered with 
buff, a wash of buff on jugulum, no femiginous on fore neck and breast. 
Measurements. Wing 87 — 92 mm; tail 34 — 41; bill 17 — 20; tarsus 21 — 22; mid. toe with 
claw 21.5 — 25.5 (from Taczanowski c 15). 
Eggs. Unknown. 
Distribution. Bering Id. (Stejneger h 1); X. B. Siberia (Middend. c I); Amurland (Maack, 
etc. c 2, e 15); Baikal (Dyb. & Godl c 15); S. E. Mongoha (Prjevalsky c 3); Corea 
(Kalin, e 8, e 15); Sakhalien (Nikolski c 15); Kurile Is. (SnoAV e 12); Japan 
(Blakiston, etc. c 12); China (Swinhoe 7, 6', etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe 2); India 
(Hume, etc. c 4, g 7); Ceylon (Legge, etc. c 4); Burmah (Oates c 5); Tenasserim 
(Davison g 2); Malay Peninsula (Hume g 4); Philippines — Luzon (Meyer gl), 
Palawan (Platen c .9); Borneo (Schwaner 4, Everett c 10, Whitehead c 77); 
Banka (v. d. Bossche 4); Java (Horsfield a !,[ Boie 4, etc.); N. Celebes — Mina- 
hassa (Forsten 4, Faber in Dresd. Mus.), Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten 4). 
The Long-toed Stint is a winter visitor to Celebes, perhaps only an irregular 
one. Its nidification is as yet unknown, but in Bering Island Dr. Stejneger 
found that, while most of the birds stay only a few days, going further north, 
a small number remain over summer, breeding sparingly on the large swamp 
behind the village; he did not, however, succeed in finding their nests. Nikolski 
says that it certainly breeds in Sakhalien, and von Middendorff killed it near 
the mouth of the Uda (Sea of Ochotsk) on June 30*'*. Its winter haunts seem 
to be Pegu, Ceylon, parts of India, probably the Siamese and Malay Peninsulas, 
and the East Indies as far as Celebes, east of which it is not as yet known. 
T. damascensis may be easily distinguished from the Eastern Little Stint, 
T.ruficollis Pall., by its much longer toes, which are yellowish in colour, not 
black; by the shafts of its primaries being (except the outermost) brown, not 
white above ; by the broad blackish centres to the feathers of the upper surface in 
Avinter, as against the greyer tint with dark shaft-streaks of rujicollis; and in 
summer plumage by the absence on the throat and jugulum of the ferruginous 
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