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Birds of Celebes; Charadriidae. 
brown notches, wliich ai’e whiter and better defined on the secondaries and wing-coverts ; 
a mesial stripe of wlnty-brown along the head above; hind -neck sti’iated with pale 
brown; lower back and rump white, with subterminal heart-shaj)ed or sagittate 
brown spots and dusky bases to the feathers; upper tail-coverts barred with brown 
and fulvous white or pale brown; tail hair-brown, crossed with about eight bars of 
darker brown; alula, primaries and their coverts blackish, the coverts and inner quills 
tipped with w'hite, the outermost with the shaft white; sujjerciliary stripe, face, 
neck, jugulum and breast fulvous, streaked with browm, bi’o-miest on ear-coverts, 
lores, and sides of hreast; remaining under-parts whitish, clear on the middle 
of the abdomen, chin and upper tlrroat, barred with rufous brown on sides, flanks 
and under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred with hau-brown 
and white; “iris dark brown; bill brownish black, below at base reddish grey”: 
Stejneger f 1 (Main, Minahassa, 23. Febr. 1894: Nat. Coll. — 0 13251). 
Young. In the young the pale brown notches on the back, scapulars and wing-coverts of the 
adult have the form of round spots arranged in pairs on opposite sides of each feather ; 
the bars on the tail are of about equal width (in the adult the dark bars are narrower); 
the mesial streak on the head above seems to be smaller (juv., Kema, 14. Sept. 1892: 
P. &F. Sarasin, and others). 
Observation. There seems to be no particular difference between winter and summer plumage. 
Moult. We have specimens moulting their remiges in November (Kabruang, C 13050) and 
February (0 13251). Others killed in April, May, June, July seem to have a per- 
fect wing. 
Measurements. Wing (in 26 expls. from the East Indies) 112 — 151 mm; tail ca. 80 — 100; 
tarsus ca. 58; middle toe with claw ca. 38; exposed culmen (straight) 77 — 100 mm. 
Probably the female is considerably larger than the male. 
Eggs. Unknown if 2, f 3). 
Distribution. East Siberia from Kamtschatka to Lake Baikal (Taczanowski f 3)\ Bering Id. 
(Stejneger f 1)\ Sakhalien (Nikolski f 3)\ Corea (Kalin, f 5); Japan (Blakiston, 
etc. dH)\ China (Swinhoe 2, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe 2); Phihppines (Sonnerat, 
Everett 2, Steere d 10, Platen 7); Borneo (Schwaner, etc. 2, 5); Sumatra (S. Miill., 
etc. d 4, 2); Java (Horsfield, Diard d 4, 2); Banka (v. d. Bossche d 4, 2); Billi- 
ton and Mcndanau (Vorderman d 12, d 13)] Lombok (Vorderman d 14)] Sumba 
(Biedel, ten Kate 12, 13)] Flores (Semmelink d 4, 2, Wallace 16)] Timor 
(S. Muller d 4, 2); Celebes — Buton (S. Muller d 2), Bonthain (S. Muller d 4), 
Grorontalo Distr. (Bosenb. d 8), Minahassa (Forsten d 4, etc.), Manado tua (Meyer, 
Nat. Coll.), Mantehage and Banka (Nat. Coll.), Tahssi (Gruillemard e 5)] Sangi 
Is. — Siao (Meyer 3, Nat. Coll.), Grt. Sangi (Bruijn e 3, Platen 4, Nat. Coll.); 
Talaut Is. — Kabruang (Nat. Coll. 13)] Sula Islands (Wallace 16)] Moluccas — 
Morty, Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, Batchian, Buru, Ceram, Amboina, Ceramlaut, 
Groram (fide Salvador! 2); Papuasia — Guebeh, Waigiou, Obi major, Salawatti, New 
Guinea, Timorlaut, Kei, Aru, Jobi, Admiralty Is., Duke of York, New Britain, 
Solomon Is., Yule Id., Is. of Torres Str. (fide, Salvador! 2); Mysol (Wallace and 
Kosenberg 16)] Australia and Tasmania (Ramsay e 6)] Polynesia — New Caledonia, 
Fiji Is., CaroMne Is., Pelew Is., Marianne Is. (f. Wiglesw. 10). 
The Eastern Whimbrel offers in some respects a case parallel to Limosa 
novaezealandiae, but in its winter migration it keeps more to the western side 
of the Pacific and to the East India Archipelago, and it is not known from New 
Zealand. Corresponding differences separate both from their Euro-Asiatic allies, 
