Birds of Celebes: Cbaradriidae. 
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1883, 127; (4) Seebohm, Distr. Charadr. 1887, 432; (5) id., B. Japan 1890, 336; 
(6) Wiglesw., Aves Polyn. 1892, 64. 
Calidris arenaria (1) IHig., Prodr. 1811, 249; (11) Naum., Vdg. Deutschl. 1834, VII, 353, 
t. 182; (III) Newton, P. Z. S. 1871, 56, pi. IV, fig. 2 (egg); (III’>^) Dresser, B. Eur. 
1877, ym, 101, pis. 559, 560; (4) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 467; (5) Legge, 
B. Ceylon 1880, 1220; (6) Oates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, 11, 398; (7) Baird, Brew. 
& Ridgw., Water B. N. Am. 1884, I, 249; (8) Everett, Ibis 1890, 465; (9) Wilson, 
B. Sandwich Is. pt. Ill, 1892; (10) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 499; (11) Tacz., 
Faun. Om. Sib. Orient. 1893, TV, 841; (12) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 541; (13) Newton, 
Diet. B. pt. ni, 1894, 803; (14) Sharpe, Oat. B. 1896, XXIV, 526, 766. 
For synonymy and further references cf. most of the above-cited works. 
Figures and descriptions. Naumann IZ, Dresser IIP‘% Seeb ohm a 4 (woodcut); Legge 5; 
Taezanowski if; Sharpe 14\ etc., etc. 
Immature in autumn plumage. Above mealy white, slightly huffy on head and some parts 
of upper sui’face, with broad sagittate black centres on mantle, back and scapulars, 
the head above broadly streaked, the foreliead, sides of head finely lined with black, 
hind neck greyer; middle of rump and upper tail-coverts grejish brown, huffy towards 
tip with a narrow teminal fine of black; wing-coverts dark brown, the middle ones 
chiefly huffy white, the greater series broadly tipped with white forming a cross-band; 
remiges externally black, unexposed inner webs grey, shafts wliite, except at tip; 
tail-feathers greyish brown, edged and tipped with white, the lateral feathers paling 
almost into white; all the under-parts white, slightly tinged with buff on sides of 
breast; no hind toe; “iris brown; bill black; legs and feet black” (Legge 5); 
wing 121 mm, tail 50, tarsus 25, middle toe with claw 20, exposed culmen 24.5 {(f, 
Dresden, 3. Nov. 1894: Schwarze — Nr. 14328)'). 
Winter plumage. In winter the adult differs from the young in having the uiDper-parts 
cinereous with dark streaks, the face and forehead white like the under-parts. 
Summer plumage. In summer the adult differs from the young in winter in having the 
broad white borders of the feathers of the upper-parts replaced by rusty red (the 
centres being black) and the head, throat and breast are rusty red with streak-spots 
of black. 
Eggs. 4; oblong pyriform; browmish olive, marked with faint spots and small blotches of 
bistre, a little more numerous about the larger end; size circa 34 X 24.5 mm (from 
Newton III and B., B. & R. 7 — from near the Anderson River, America, 68° N. — 
MacFarlane). 
Nest. That in which the above eggs were found is said to have been of hay and decayed 
leaves (HI)- 
Distribution. Europe; Africa; Madagascar; Asia; America. — E. Siberia (Midden d. etc. U)\ 
China (David 4, Swinhoe, De La Touche 70); Japan (Blakiston, etc. a 4); India 
(Hume, etc. 5); Ceylon (Legge 5); Burmah (Armstrong 0); Cocliin China (Tiraud 
6)\ N. Borneo (Everett 8, 12, 14, Pretyman 74); Java (Kuhl & v. Hasselt a 2); 
?N. Celebes — Limbotto (v. Rosenberg a 5); Marshall Is. (Finsch a 0); Sandwich 
Is. (Wilson 9). 
In R osenberg’s list (a 3) of tbe birds collected by him at Lake Limbotto 
from August IL*' to September 14‘'‘, 1863, and January 5*** to February 3'\ 1864, 
1) This specimen, which was shot by K. Schwarze of the Dresden Museum on the strand of the Elbe, 
affords the first record of the occurrence of the Sanderling in Saxony. 
