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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
Kei, Aru, New Giuinea, Duke of York Id., New Britain (Salvadori d 8); Islands of 
Torres Straits (McGill. d8); Pole Id. (D ’Albertis d 8); AustraKa and Tasmania 
(Bamsay did); Pelew Islands (Mus. Godef. d 16). 
This form of the Little Stint has an extremely long, hut, so far as is known, 
a somewhat restricted range in respect of longitudinal breadth. Its extreme 
northern limits are not known, for even in Bering Island Stejneger found it 
to be only a bird of passage, which arrived in May and passed on to some 
other place. It would appear from the remarks of Pallas and Middendorff 
that some probably remain to breed in the countries washed by the Sea of 
Ochotsk. It descends to Sakhalien, according to Nikolski’s observation 
in enormous bands at the end of August. Middendorff remarks that the birds 
he found in the far North of Siberia, to which the afore-mentioned eggs belong, 
differed from those of the east, and Taczanowski has separated them as 
T. minuta orientalis, a form wanting the ferruginous on the jugulum, sides of 
neck and cheeks. If a good species, and not the immature T. rtificollis, its range 
would appear to be somewhat more central than that of T. ruficoUis. Southward 
the latter pursues its way in autumn through China (David 3, De La Touche 
11) and Japan (fll), and onward through the East India Islands as far as 
Australia and Tasmania. A certain number no doubt winter in the Archipelago, 
but we suspect that Mr. Whitehead’s remark touching Borneo is largely true 
for the other tropical islands — that, while it winters in small flocks, it is “like 
all the rest of the Sandpipers, only common, or apparently so, during the time 
it is actually moving south or north”. From Limbotto Meyer records it in 
July. Swinhoe (j 1) got it on board ship near Cochin China on May 14*\ 
1872. From the Indian countries it has not yet been recorded, but Mr. Hume 
could point to no safe mark of distinction between this species and T. minuta 
(w'hich occurs there) when they are both in winter plumage. Col. Legge affirms 
that T. ruficollis is a larger bird with a proportionally larger foot and tarsus, 
having a pure white chest and a greater extent of w’hite on the forehead, as 
well as a greyer upper surface. 
GENUS CALIDRIS Cuv. 
Easily distinguishable from Tringa and other small Stints by its having no 
hallux. The bill. Snipe-like in character, though short, ensures its distinction 
from the small Plovers. Migratory; almost cosmopolitan. 
334. ? CALIDRIS ARENARIA (L.). 
Sanderling. 
a. Tringa arenaria (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 251 (from 'Willughby); (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., 
Scolopaces, 1864, 55; (3) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; W. Bias., J. f. O. 
