TEREKIA. 14,3 



Length. — About 11*5 inches (mounted specimen); legs and feet greenish 

 yellow. This is either a new species or an aberrant form of Totanus. It is 

 quite unlike any of the other species, except Totanus Batightom, with the 

 figure of which in the April number of the Ibis, 1883, pi. iv., it agrees in a few 

 characters. The markings of the breast and upper parts agree very well, but 

 the lower back, rump and upper tail coverts are not white as in that species or 

 form. These are dusky with whitish edges and tips. Again in the webbing 

 of the toes, this Kurrachee specimen differs from T. HaugJitoni\n\\z.v\n^ 

 only one-eighth inch of a web, the fringe however is quite apparent. 

 The palatal recurved horny papillas referred to by Mr, Hume are also 

 present. 



In measurements however there is a wide difference. I\Ir. Hume gives : — 



Length. Expanse. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill at gape. Bill at front. 



Male 13-2 2225 7-3 3-0 r85 2*5 2- i 



Female ...12-9 22- 3 7-0 3-0 1-65 2*2 1-92 



The Kurrachee specimen is a female and measures — 



II-5 7"i2 2'6 2-37 175 1-62 



These measurements, it will be seen, will not fit any of the other species of 

 the genus. 



i7(?i^'. — Kurrachee (Sind) in the harbour during \\inter. The single speci- 

 men was obtained in November 18S2. 



Gen. Terekia.— -5" //(?/-. 



Bill recurved, long, slender; tarsi short; toes narrowly webbed; hind toe 

 less than half the size of the outer one. 



178. Terekia Cinerea, Guldenst., N. Comm. Soc. imp. Petrop. xix, 

 p. 473, t. xix ; Jerd., B. Lid. iii. p. 682, No. 876; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 

 195, pi. ; Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 237 ; ii. p. 296; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 341 ; 

 Hume andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 460 ; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 836; Murray, Vert. 

 ZooL, Sind, p. 246 ; id., Avif. Brit. Ltd. ii. p. 624, No. 1309. — The Terek 

 Sand-Piper or Pigmy Curlew. 



Forehead, chin, throat, sides of the head and neck in front greyish white- 

 wilh ashy striae ; back, scapulars, tertials, rump and upper tail coverts ashy 

 brown, the feathers with dark shafts; feathers of the median wing coverts 

 narrowly tipped with white ; primaries dark brown, the ist quill with a white 

 shaft; secondaries dusky, broadly terminated with white ; shoulder and edo-e 

 of the wing dark brown ; tail concolorous with the back, the tips bordered 

 with white ; sides of the breast ashy grey, the feathers mesially darker; lower 

 breast, abdomen, vent and under tail coverts while. In an advanced sta"-c 

 of plumarre— March — the entire uj^per parts are darker, the scapulars are 



