Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae.- 
781 
m. Limonites ruficollis (1) Sharpe, Oat. B. 1896, XXT V, 545, 767. 
For further references cf. Salvad. d 8\ Stejneger Jc 1] Taczanowski 13\ Sharpe ml. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould f I, g I\ Seebohm I J; Pallas c J; Temminck d I; 
Salvador! d S; Stejneger k 1 (diagn.); Taczanowski 75; Sharpe m 1. 
Winter plumage. Above drab, with dark brown centre-streaks on head above, back, scapulars 
and wing-coverts; rump and upper tail-coverts blacker, wlute at the sides; tail 
dark brown, paling into grey on the lateral feathers; outer upper wing-coverts 
dark brown, the greater series tipped with white; remiges dark brown, shafts white 
(only partly so on 2“'* to 4‘^ primaries), the inner primaries and the secondaries edged 
with white, increasing in extent inwardly so as to absorb almost all of the inner 
secondaries; tertiaries dark brown; lores and ear-coverts brownish; supraloral 
and superciliary region, cheeks and entire under-parts white; under wing- 
coverts white, barred with brown at edge of wing; “iris brown, bill and feet black” : 
Guillem, dll (Timor: Riedel — C 6288). 
Summer plumage. The featliers of the upper-parts with black centres broadly edged with 
ferruginous; cheeks, fore-neck and jugulum ferruginous, sides of breast with short 
streaks of dark brown, the rest as in winter ($, Euhi, New Guinea, May 1873: 
Meyer — C 910). 
Remark. A specimen from Great Sangi (0 7560) is in almost complete winter dress with 
some remains of summer plumage on the upper parts; while 0 910 and another killed 
at Rubi at the same time are in incomplete summer plumage, with remains of winter 
plumage. 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Middle 
toe with 
claw 
Exposed 
oulinen 
a. (C 7650) Gt. Sangi (Meyer) 
101 
44 
21 
18 
18 
b. (C 1941) Q, Limbotto, Celebes, July, 71 (id.) 
108 
46 
20.5 
— 
— 
c. (C 5418) (^, N. Bohol, Nov. 1877 (Everett) . 
98 
45 
19 
17.5 
17 
d. (C 5424) $, N. Bohol, Nov. 1877 (Everett) . 
100 
45 
20 
18 
19 
e. (C 6289) Timor (Riedel) 
94 
43 
19.5 
17.5 
17.5 
f. (C 6288) Timor (id.) 
103 
44 
20.5 
18.5 
19 
g. (C910) Q, New Guinea, June, 73 (Meyer) . 
105 
45 
20.5 
18.5 
— 
h. (C 908) cT, New Guinea, June, 73 (id.) . . . 
103 
44 
19.5 
19 
17 
Eggs and nest? On the Taimyr River (74° N.) von Middendorff (f 2) found a nest with 
4 eggs, catching the female at the same time. The eggs he speaks of as greenish 
brown, spotted ; found in a depression in the moss of the marshy hollow, and scarcely 
20 paces from a pool. The nest was bedded only with dry willow leaves, apparently 
wind-driven. Taczanowski (13) held these to belong to his Tringa mmuta mientalis, 
a supposed subspecies, as to the validity of which we are in doubt. 
Distribution. Bering Id. (Stejneger k 7); E. Siberia (Pallas a 7, Middendorf, etc. 75); 
Sakhalien (Nikolski 75); Kmile Is. (Snow f 77); Japan (Henderson, etc. f 77); 
Oorea (Campbell 75); China (David 5, Styan 5, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe d 
Hainan (Styan 72); Philippines — Bohol (Everett d 5), Negros and Cebu (Bourns 
& Worcester 14), Palawan (Platen 75, Whitehead 6, S); Borneo (Schwaner, 
Everett, etc. 7); at sea near Cochin China (Swinhoe j 7); Malay Peninsula (Hume 
d 5); ? Andamans and Nicobars (Hume & Davison f 6)] Java (S. Muller etc. f 3)-, 
Sumba (ten Kate /’72); Flores (Weber f 13]\ Timor (S. Muller f 5, Riedel); 
Saleyer (Everett 75); Celebes — (Forsten f 3), Limhotto (Meyer f 8, Rosenberg 
f 9)', Great Sangi (Meyer d 70); Moluccas — Halmahera, Weeda, MaMan, Morty, 
Ternate (Salvador! d 8, d 15), Buru (Rosenberg f 6'>*^)\ Papuasia — Salawatti, 
