Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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among them Sharpe (14), do not admit it as a good species. In the usual 
order of things it should be this supposed eastern form which descends to Japan, 
China, Formosa, Hainan, the Philippines, but Java and South-central Celebes are 
equally likely to be reached by specimens descending the Malay Peninsula from 
the north-west, as seems to be the case with Lanius tigrims and perhaps 
Butastur liventer. Mr. Dresser himself, however, believed Everett’s specimen 
from Bohol, Philippines (4), to be L. platgrhgncha. 
The Broad-billed Sandpiper was found breeding in Lapland by Wolley 
and on the Dovrefjeld in Norway by Mitchell and others; the eggs are not 
yet known from Eastern Asia. In autumn it migrates south, but in the East 
the greater number seem to stop before reaching the Archipelago, and the 
specimens which have been obtained there are so feAV in number that they 
almost seem to come under the head of stragglers. 
GENUS GALLINAGO Leach. 
In the Snipes the eye is situated far back, almost as it were in the side 
of the occiput; the bill is straight, about twice the length of the head, termi- 
nally soft and nervous, the upper mandible overlapping the lower and notched 
behind the tip to allow for the latter fitting to it, the nasal groove reaching 
well into the terminal third. Middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus, which 
is transversely scutellated. Bectrices 12 to 26 in number, the lateral ones 
greatly attenuated when the number is large. Wing moderate, the inner se- 
condaries nearly as long as the primaries, the middle ones about half their 
length. The Snipes are migratory, and almost cosmopolitan in their distribution. 
337. GALLINAGO MEGALA Swinh. 
East Siberian Snipe. 
Gallinago megala (1) Swinh., Ibis 1861, 343; (2) id., Ibis 1863, 415; (3) Sclil., Mus. P.-B., 
Scolopaces, 1864, 12; Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 98; (5) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. 
Borneo 1874, 334; (6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 235; (7) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 
1877, 768; (8) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 477; (9) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 
345, 953; Prjev., Bowl. Orn. IVIisc. 1878, HE, 92; (10) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 
143; (11) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 817; (12) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, HE, 337; 
(13) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 206; (14) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 60; 
(15) Sharpe, t. c. 145; (16) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Phihppines 1890, 26; 
(17) Styan, Ibis 1891, 330, 505; (18) Wiglesworth, Av. Polyn. 1892, 67; (19) 
De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 492; (20) Biitt., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Beise 1893, HE, 283; 
(21) Tacz., Faun. Om. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 956; (22) Bns. & Worces., B. 
Menage Exped. 1894, 31; (23) Grant, Ibis 1894, 522; (24) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 
180; (25) Sharpe, Oat. B. 1896, XXIV, 624, 769. 
a. Scolopax (Spilura) stenura (I) Badde (nee Kuhl), Beis. S. 0. Sibir. 1863, 334, pi. XHT 
b. Gallinago heterocerca (1) Cab., J. f. 0. 1870, 235; (2) Tacz., ib. 1873, 104, t. H, f. 31 (egg). 
