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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
Figure and descriptions. Dresser 77; Legge .5; Oates 7; Slxarpe 14\ etc., etc. 
Summer plumage. Snipe-like: crown and occiput black, running douui narrowly to the 
culmen, the feathers slightly margined with yellowish brown; sides of forehead pale 
brown, passing as a streak on to sides of occiput, a second streak above the ear- 
coverts; lores and ear-coverts dark bi’own; neck and breast wliity-brown, whiter 
on cheeks and throat, everywhere streaked or spotted with daih broum; upper-parts 
black, with borders of tawny olive and wbity -brown to the feathers, upper tail-coverts 
nearly black, mixed at the sides with white; wing-coverts and remiges dusky, the 
greater coverts tipped with white, shafts of remiges white; under-parts wliite, streaked 
and spotted with brown on sides, under tail-eoverts at sides, and against the meta- 
carpal edge; “iris brown; bill black, slightly pale at the base beneath; legs brown” 
(Legge 5); wing 107 imn; tail 38; tarsus 22.5; middle toe 21; exposed culmen 31 
(N. Eui-ope — Nr. 11375). 
Adult in winter. “Upper parts generally ashy grey witli a dusty brownish tinge, the centres 
of the feathers darker; rump black, most of the feathers with light margins; wing 
and tail as in the summer dress, but rather lighter; under-parts white, the throat 
slightly marked with small, short, blackish grey striations” (Dresser 77). 
Young in first autumn. According to Dresser, differs but little from the adult in summer. 
Eggs. Stone-buff, darker or lighter, marked with a few faint purphsh grey underlying shell- 
spots, and with a great or smaller amount of rich dark umber -brown or reddish 
umber surface-spots and blotches; size 31 — 31.7 X 21.6 — 23.5 mm (from Dresser 77). 
Nest. “The broad-billed Sandpiper differs from other wading birds in the situation of its nest, 
choosing open soft spots in the marsh where there is little else than bog-moss with 
a light growth of a kind of sedge; and on a low tuft just rising above the water its 
nest may be found, often without much difficulty ... its eggs . . . about the third week 
of June. Many empty nests are found for one that is occupied . . . They are neatly 
rounded hollows, and have a few bits of dry grass at the bottom” (W olley 77 — 
Lapland). 
Distribution. Europe; Egyjpt; Madagascar; S. W. Asia; Indian comitries; Japan to Celebes. 
— India (Jerdon, etc. 5); Ceylon (Legge 5); Andamans (Davison c 4)\ Bui-mah 
(Oates, etc. 7); Tenasserim (Armstrong 5); Malay Peninsula 7)\ Cbina 
(David c 5, c 9)\ Corea (8) ; Japan (Blakiston c S); Ponnosa (Swinhoe c 5); Hainan 
(Styan c il); Phihppines — Bobol (Everett 4), Negros (Steere 13), Palawan 
(Platen 9, 12)] Java (Reinwardt c 2); Celebes — Luwu on the Gulf of Boni 
(Weber c 12)] Amboina (Wallace 14). 
A single specimen of the Broad-billed Sandpiper from Celebes in Prof. 
Weber’s collection has recently been recorded by Mr. Biittikofer. It is new 
to the avifauna. 
The genus Limicola may be distinguished from Tringa by its bill — very 
high at the base, flat and broad in the middle, decurved at the tip — and by 
its Snipe-like plumage. Its affinities seem to lie between the Sandpipers and 
the Snipes. The present species, with a supposed eastern race L. sibirica Dress., 
is the only representative of the genus. According to Mr. Dresser the East 
Siberian bird in breeding plumage has the upper parts rufous, herein agreeing 
with the eastern race of the Little Stint; this form is found in China in winter. 
Its validity is admitted in Taczanowski’s work (Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, 11, 
924), but a fresh comparison does not seem to have been made. Other authors. 
