Order CEARADRIIF0BME8 
No. 198: 
Family 8C0L0PACIDM. 
RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA AFFINIS. 
EASTEEN WOOD-SANDPIPEE. 
(Plate 156.)* 
Totantjs AFFmis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 191, 1821 ; Java. 
Totanus ajfinis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 191, 1821 ; Sclater, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 222 ; Swinhoe, %b., p. 311. 
Tringa Uttorea Pallas (not Linne), Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 195, 1827 (Siberia). 
Totanus glareoides Gray, Zool. Miscel., p. 86, 1844 (n.n.) 
Totanus glareola (not Linne) Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, Vol. II., p. 215, 1851 ; Schrenck, 
Vogels des Amur-Landes, p. 416, 1861 ; Swinboe, Ibis 1861, p. 343 ; Radde, 
Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 329, 1863 ; Swinboe, Ibis 1870, p. 363; Prjevalsky, 
in Rowley’s Omitb. Miscel., Vol. III., p. 88, 1878 ; Kelbam, Ibis 1882, p. 17 ; 
Salvador!, Ornitb. Papua, e Mol., Vol. III., p, 323, 1882 ; Stejneger, BuU. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 130, 1885 ; id., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 133 ; Seebobm, 
Geogr. Distr. Cbaradr., p. 365, 1887 ; La Toucbe, Ibis 1892, p. 500 ; Taczanowski, 
Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 874, 1893. 
Actitis glareola Blytb, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc., p, 267, 1852. 
Rhynchophilus affinis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 597, 1856. 
RTiyacophilus glareola Sbarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 491, 1896 ; Matbews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 27, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., p. 55, 1909. 
Helodromas odiropus (not Linne) Hall, Viet. Nat., Vol. XVIII., p. 163, 1902 ; id.. Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 65, 1902 ; id., Key Birds Austr., p. 114, 1906 ; id.. Emu, Vol. VII., p. 142, 
1908. 
Tringa glareola Mattingley, Emu, Vol. V., p. 155, 1906 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 114, 1906 ; 
Matbews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 222, 1912. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia in winter. 
Adult male, in breeding-plumage. Dusky brown above, with blotches of darker brown 
distributed over the upper-surface ; bead and bind-neck streaked with white, and 
white spots distributed over the back and wings ; upper wing-coverts for the most 
part brown, more or less fringed and barred with white ; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts and quills dark brown, shaft of outer primary white ; secondary-qubls some- 
somewhat paler brown, and edged with white at the tips ; the innermost secondaries 
like the back ; upper tail-coverts white, barred with brown ; middle tail-feathers 
brown, barred with white or bufify- white, the outer feathers for the most part white 
with irregular markings of pale brown ; eye-ring white ; eyebrow and sides of face 
minutely spotted with brown ; ear-coverts brown, intermixed with white ; chin 
* The Plate is lettered Tringa glareola. 
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