Order CHARADRIIF0BME8 
No. 207. 
Family 8C0L0PAGIDM. 
LIMICOLA FALCINELLUS SIBIRICA. 
EASTERN BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
(Plate 166 .) 
Limicola siBmiCA Dresser, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.) 1876, p. 674 ; Siberia. 
Tringa platyrhynchus (not Temminck) Swinhoe, Ibis 1863, p. 412 ; id., ib. 1870, p. 363 ; 
Seebobm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 433, 1887 ; La Touebe, Ibis 1892, p. 499. 
Tringa {Limicola) pygmoea (not Latham) Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, p. 223, 1851. 
Limicola 'platyrhyncha Dybowski, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1873, p. 103 ; Sharpe. Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 612, 1896 (pars). 
Limicola sibirica Dresser, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1876, p. 674 ; Taezanowski, Mem. TAcad. 
Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 924, 1893. 
Limicola falcinellus sibirica, Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 31, 1912 ; id., ib., p. 84. 
Distribution. East Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to north-west Australia 
and Northern Territory in winter. 
Adult male [winter). General colour above ash-grey with dark shaft-lines and white 
fringes to the feathers, some of the feathers on the upper-back black, margined on 
the sides with ferruginous, like some of the long scapulars ; bastard-wing and 
lesser marginal wing-coverts sooty-brown ; median coverts brown with darker 
shaft-Unes and fringed with white, greater coverts similar but paler and incliping 
to ash-grey ; primary-coverts blackish ; primary-quiQs dark brown with white 
shafts, paler on the inner webs and inchning to white towards the base ; secondaries 
pale brown, margined with white and with more or less white at the base ; some of 
the long innermost secondaries sooty-black, with ferruginous margins and tipped 
with ash-grey ; middle of the lower-back, rump, and upper tail-coverts sooty- 
black, fringed with white, grey, or ferruginous ; tail-feathers ash-brown with white 
shaft-hnes and white margins, crown of head, hind-neck, and sides of neck blackish- 
brown, with grey and sometimes white margins to the feathers ; sides of the forehead 
and an indistinct line over the eye white, the feathers above and behind the latter 
more or less streaked with dusky-brown ; loral streak and ear-coverts dusky- 
brown, the feathers on the fore-neck inclinmg to grey with broader dark centres, 
which form a band ; remainder of the under-surface white, including the breast, 
abdomen, under taU-coverts, sides of rump, sides of body and axillaries ; 
thighs dusky-grey ; under wing-coverts white, finely mottled with brown round 
the margin, the primary-coverts and quiU-hning greyish-brown. Total length 
175 mm. * cuhnen 31, wing 106, tail 37, tarsus 23. 
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