78 BRITISH lilllDS. [vol. VI. 



As this bird is new to the British List since tlie [)ubli- 

 cation of our Hand-List of British Bird<, it should be 

 added at page 179 thus • — 



TEREKIA CINEREA 



386a. Terekia cinerea (Gukl.)— TEREK SANDPIPER. 



ScoLOPAX CINEREA Giildenstadt, Nov. Comm. Petrop., xix, p. 473, 



pi. 19 (1774 — Shores of Caspian Sea). 



Terekia cinerea Giild., T. Parkin, Brit. B., vi, p. 74. 



Distribution. — England. — Four. Male and female Brookland 

 (Kent) May 2ard, 1912, male, 24th, and female, 2oth, same 

 place {ut supra). 



Distribution.— .4&roafZ. — Breeds in north-east Europe and 

 northern Siberia from west Finland (Lat. 64° Gulf of Bothnia) 

 to the Kolyma basin, southwai'ds to about 54° N. lat. in 

 central Russia and west Siberia, but not so far south as the 

 sea of Okhotsk in east Siberia. Passes on migration through 

 Asia and east Europe (eastern shores of Black Sea and shores 

 of Caspian Sea), wintering in the Eastern Archipelago and 

 Australia, also along the shores of southern Asia, in north- 

 east Africa and in small numbers even to South Africa. Rare 

 in middle and west Europe ; three times in Germany, several 

 times in Switzerland, eleven in Italy, several times in France. 



Authors of the Hand -List. 



