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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
etc. *2); Corea (Kalinowski ^2); Kurile Is. (Pallas, Snow e5); Japan (Siebold, 
etc. e 3, eiy, China (David, etc. a 4); Formosa seen only, and Hainan (Swinhoe 
d3, a 6); Philippines — Bohol (Everett S), ?]Sregros (Steere f 3)-, Borneo (Ever. 
d 14)\ Singapore (Davison 5); Java (v. Hasselt d 4)\ Timor (Sal. Muller d4), 
Talaut — Kahruang (Nat. Coll, d 20y Celebes — (Porsten d4), Minahassa (P.&F.S.), 
Gorontalo Distr. (Rosenh. dll, Riedel a S); Moluccas — Halmahera (Bernst. d 4, 
Wallace 8); Papuasia — Aru, New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Is. (f. Salvad. 
a 6); Is. Torres Str. (Salvad. a 6); Australia and Tasmania (Gould d IL Ramsay 
dl3)\ Polynesia — New Caledonia, Loyalty Is., New Hebrides, Caroline Is., Gilbert 
Is., Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga Is. (fide Wiglesw. d); New Zealand (Buller, etc. F); 
Chatham Is. (H. O. Forbes 7). 
I'he Pacific form of the Bar-tailed Godwit is very closely related to the 
Limosa lapponica of Europe and Asia (except the East), but may be recognised 
by its brown lower back with fulvous or whitish terminal edgings, as against 
the white with a few brown heart-shaped or arrow-head spots in L. lappomca\ 
also the rump and upper tail-coverts of L. novaezealandiae are white barred with 
brown, as against white with a few brown spots (bars on the longer tail-coverts) 
in the western form, and a corresponding difference is seen on the under wing- 
coverts. L. novaezealandiae holds itself to the countries and islands washed by 
the Western and Northern Pacific; L. lapponica has been recorded as far east as 
the Yenesei (Seehohm) and by Lord Tweeddale (P. Z. S. 1878, 711) from 
Bohol in the Philippines. One of these specimens from Bohol is now before 
us; it cannot be separated from L. lapponica. 
The Pacific Godwit breeds in the highest northern latitudes, and as yet its 
eggs seem to have been recorded from only two spots from the laimyr 
Peninsula of Siberia, 75'’ N., by von Middendorff, and from the mouth of 
the Yukon by Dali fA In winter the main body of individuals migrate 
across the Pacific, or over China, to Australia and New Zealand, in which lattei 
country some remain all the year, and Sir Walter Buller (V ) mentions an 
egg from there, which he can refer to no other species. The number of in- 
dividuals which visit New Zealand seems to he enormous; Buller speaks of 
tens of thousands of birds having been seen setting off from the north of North 
Island on their northward journey, and mentions a case reported to him of 
ninety-seven being killed out of a pack at a single shot with an ordinary gun ! 
In the East India Islands, on the other hand, this Godwit is evidently a rare 
bird. From Celebes we know of only three recorded specimens in Museums, 
but Rosenberg puts down 5 in his list of birds of Limbotto (d 11), Schlegel 
records 2 specimens from Halmahera, 1 from Java, 2 from Timor; more recently 
it has been recorded by Dr. Sharpe and Mr. Everett from Sarawak and Labuan, 
also from the Philippines; David (a 4) and Styan (d 10) mention it as a bird 
of passage in China, but the former author adds that it even winters there also. 
The bill of this bird, perhaps the most highly specialized organ of ff , is 
very variable in length. From Totanus the genus Limosa may best be distin- 
