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crescent of white at the extremity ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts white ; flanks mottled with brown ; bill, feet and ii-ides 

 olive. 



Total length 9 J inches ; bill If ; wing 7 ; tail 2} ; tarsi If. 



Genus TEREKIA, Bonaparte. 



Only one species of this form is known. The upward 

 curvature of the bill renders it remarkably different from all 

 other Sandpipers. 



Sp. 527. TEREKIA CINEREA. 



Terek Sandpiper. 



Scolopax terek, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. ii. p. 724. 



cinet^ea, Gmel. Liun., vol. i. p. 657. 



Limosa recurvirostra, Pall. Zool. Rosso- Asiat., vol. ii. p. 181. 

 Terek Avoset, Penn. Arct. Zool., vol. ii. p. 502. 



Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. v. p. 155. 



Limosa terek, Temm. Man. d'Orn., torn. iv. p. 426. 

 Terek Godwit, Gould, Birds of Europe, vol. iv. pi. 307. 

 Totanus javanicus, Horsf. Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 193. 



sumatranus, Raff. 



Fedoa terekensis, Steph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xii. p. 83. 

 Numenius cinereus, Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn., part iii. p. 1157. 

 Limicula indiana, Vieill. 

 Terekiajavanica,Bonap. List, of Eur. and Am. Birds, p. 52. 



cinerea, G. R. Gray, List, of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit. p. 88. 



Xenus cinereus, Kaup. — G. R. Gray, List of Birds in Brit. Mus. Coll., 

 p. 96. 



Terekia cinerea, Gould,. Birds of Australia, foL, vol. vi. pi. 34. 



I killed a single example of this species on the river 

 Mokai in New South Wales on the 12th of July 1839, 

 and neither before nor since have I seen another Australian 

 specimen ; the individual in question was very shy, and it was 

 with difficulty that I got sufficiently near to shoot it. On 



