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111. RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnæus). WOOD SANDPIPER.

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 Tringa glareola Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149.

 Rhyacophilus glareola Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 491; Hand-List (1899), 1, 162; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 48; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 27.

Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Cagayan Sulu (Mearns); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Meyer, Everett, Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Negros (Steere Exp.); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; in winter Indian Peninsula to Australia.

Adult male in winter plumage.—Above bronzy brown, with light ashy bronze margins to the feathers, which are slightly spotted with white on both edges; scapulars like back, but with somewhat larger white spots; lower back and rump uniform brown, feathers of the latter edged with white; upper tail-coverts pure white, lateral ones with blackish shaft-streaks and irregular longitudinal markings; lesser wing-coverts uniform brown; median and greater coverts spotted with white on both webs and resembling the scapulars; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, fringed with white at the ends; secondaries notched with white on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish intermediary bands; center tail-feathers ashy brown, barred with blackish brown, and deeply notched with white; lateral feathers white, barred with blackish, these bars becoming irregular on lateral feathers and reduced to a few freckles on outermost ones; feathers of crown and hind neck almost uniform ashy brown, slightly mottled with darker brown centers; lores dusky, surmounted by a distinct white eyebrow; sides of face white, slightly streaked with dark brown; ear-coverts uniform dark brown along their upper edge; cheeks and throat white; sides of neck, lower throat, fore neck, and chest ashy, varied with shaft-lines of brown; remainder of under surface pure white; sides of upper breast ashy brown; lateral under tail-coverts with blackish shaft-streaks and a few frecklings of black; under wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases; axillars white, with a few irregular bars and freckles; lower primary-coverts and quills below dusky brown, with whitish spots on the edges of the inner secondaries. ‘Basal half of bill olive-brown, terminal half black; legs and feet pale greenish; claws dark horn-color; iris brown.’ (Oates.) Length, 216; culmen, 29; wing, 12; tail, 47; tarsus, 35.

Adult female.—Similar to the male. ‘Bill blackish, olive at the base of lower mandible; feet olive; iris very dark brown.’ (Butler.) Length, 203; wing, 124; tail, 48; culmen, 28; tarsus, 38.

Adult male in summer plumage.—More variegated than in winter, the back being uniform dark brown, with large notches of white on both webs, and having very distinct white edges to scapulars and inner wing-coverts; long upper tail-coverts barred with dusky blackish and resembling the center tail-feathers; head and neck streaked with white; sides of face, lower throat, and fore neck very distinctly and broadly streaked with blackish brown centers to the feathers; sides of body and under tail-coverts mottled with cross-bars of blackish brown; the axillars narrowly barred with blackish brown. ‘Bill blackish olive, below at base lighter brownish olive; feet light grayish olive; iris dark brown.’ (Stejneger.) Length, 178; culmen, 33; wing, 124; tail, 47; tarsus, 35.

Young after first molt.—Differs from the adults in being closely spotted on the upper surface, but the spots more or less rufescent; lower throat and chest ashy as in the winter plumage of the adults, but the dusky brown stripes very distinct and invading sides of body; axillars pure white, or with the merest trace of brown frecklings. ‘Bill dusky brown, inclining to greenish olive toward base; feet greenish olive, iris blackish brown.’ (Butler.)

“In the breeding season the white spots on the upper surface become much worn and abraded, so that the general appearance of the back is very uniform; the mottling on the fore neck and chest becomes very distinct by reason of the abrasion of the white margins of the feathers, and the axillars are completely barred across with brown.” (Sharpe.)

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