Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
793 
Adult male in winter plumage. Head above, mantle, scapulars, tertiaries and wing- 
coverts dark brown (hair-brown), with borders to the feathers of fulvous white or 
white, very broad on the wing-coverts, forming deep notches on the tertiaries and 
scapulars; hind-neck grey, with obscure dark centres; lower back brown with 
fulvous tips; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail barred with dark brown and 
white; metacarpal and primary coverts and remiges blackish brown, the inner 
primaries and secondaries paler and bordered with white; shafts of remiges Avhite, the 
exposed tips thereof blackish; supraloral stripe to above the ear- coverts whitish; 
face whitish, striolated with brown; fore-neck and breast pale buff-brown, with 
dark shaft-streaks cliiefly at the sides; remaining under-parts buff-white, a few 
brown spots and shaft-streaks on the under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries, the former with horse-shoe bars, the latter with irregular bars of gi'ey- 
brown; primaries below grey mottled on basal half of inner web with whitish; 
“bill reddish white, tip black; feet slate-blue” (P. & E. Sarasin); iris “dark brown”: 
Stejneger (o’, Kema, 23. Oct. 1893: P. & E. Sarasin). 
This specimen has some of the cinnamon-tinted feathers of breeding plumage 
still left on forehead, lores and cheeks and upper throat. 
Female in winter. Larger than the male. The tail is grey-brown in this example, mottled 
with white towards its base (Q, S. Island, New Zealand, Oct. 1872 — C 4715). 
According to Seebohm (g 2) in the western form of this Godwt, L. Japponica 
(L.), “the tail of the young in first plumage, and of the adult in summer plumage, 
is always barred. Adults in winter plumage have plain tads, but those of birds of 
tlie year occasionally show traces of bars”. The male described, like a second before 
us (Bohol, Nov. 1877) seems to be still wearing its summer tail. 
Breeding plumage. In breeding plumage the bird has the face and under-parts rufous, the 
fore-neck, under tail-coverts, etc. more or less marked with brown; the upper-parts 
varied with rufous instead of white. 
Sex. Sexual differences in this form have not received much attention since Middendorff 
pointed out (e 2) that the female, besides being much larger than the male, has a 
longer and flatter forehead (this we should think depends upon the size of the bill), 
a straighter bill, the upper tail-coverts with the white bars never washed with rusty; 
the belly variable — greyish wlute, or with black sagittate spots, or with rusty 
streaks, or unspotted. 
Young. Much like the adult in winter (cf. Buller F, Taczanowski i 2). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Mid. toe 
witli claw 
Exposed 
Culmen 
8 Males 
3 Eemales . . 
199 - 223 
225—243 
68—81 
75—80 
50-61 
55—64 
33— 41 
34— 41 
78—110 
98—111 
(from measurements given by Stejneger i /, Taczanowski ^ 2, and (f North 
Celebes, and Q New Zealand). 
Eggs. According to v. Middendorff 2 or 3 to a sitting; one figured is ovate, dusky olive 
with irregular black spots; size 56 X 38 mm (e 2). Messrs Baird, Brewer and 
Ridgway ('h Ij describe two eggs as deep greenish drab and pale drab respectively 
in ground-colour, the blotches on the former being of a dilute umber, much more 
pronounced in the second specimen; size 57 X 36 — 37 mm. 
Nest. A rounded depression in a sedge tussock, with a lining of dry grasses (Dali hi 
— Alaska). 
Distribution. Alaska (Dali h 1, Nelson a 10)-, Bering Id. (Stejneger i 7); Prijbilof Is. 
(Elliot h ly, Aleutian Is. (Nelson 2); East Siberia to the Taimyr River (Midd., 
lloycr & Wiglcsworth, Birds of Celebes (Dec. 8th, 1897). jqq 
