"Coloration in winter.--Upper parts light brownish gray, with black shaft-stripes which are broadest on the crown; sides of head and neck whitish, with dark streaks, supercilia and cheeks paler; wing-coverts with pale edges, greater coverts with white tips; alula, primary-coverts, and primaries blackish brown; secondaries brownish gray like back, but with white borders outside and at the end; lower back and rump dark brown, with white edges to the feathers; upper tail-coverts the same, but the white borders are much wider, the white sometimes occupying the greater part or the whole of the feathers; tail ashy brown; lower plumage white, fore neck and upper breast streaked or spotted with dark brown. "In summer the plumage is blackish above, with whitish edges to the feathers, the scapulars with large chestnut spots; upper and lower tail-coverts white, with dark brown spots and bars; chin, throat, breast, and flanks so thickly spotted as to be almost covered in the middle of the breast with blackish brown; there is no rufous on the lower plumage." (Blanford.) "Seen in small flocks along seashore in winter." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) I have identified as of this species, a sandpiper collected by Major Edgar A. Mearns. The field tag gives no locality but I believe the specimen came from Mindanao. This and many other species of migratory shore-birds will doubtless be found in considerable numbers when more attention is paid to collecting them. Genus LIMICOLA Koch, 1816. Bill rather long and, except at base, flattened; upper mandible slightly decurved at tip and decidedly longer than lower mandible; exposed culmen greater than tarsus, the latter slightly longer than middle toe with claw. 120. LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temminck). BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. Tringa platyrhyncha Temminck, Man. d'Orn. (1815), 398. Limicola platyrhyncha Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 612; Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 59; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 29. Bohol (Everett); Cebu (McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Negros (Steere Exp.); Palawan (Platen). Northern Europe and Siberia, Mediterranean and Red Seas; in winter China to Indian Peninsula and Moluccas.