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TEREKIA CINEREA. 691 
by Dr. Bradshaw on the Orange River on the 5th of September. 
Mr. Rickard has met with it at Port Elizabeth on one occasion, and 
in Natal Mr. Ayres has found it frequenting small inland streamlets, 
and shallow pools. He states that they are found either solitary or 
in pairs, and rise much like a Snipe, their flight being very rapid. 
The same gentleman has also met with the species in the neighbour- 
hood of Potchefstroom in the Transvaal. The late Mr. Frank Oates 
procured a specimen at Inyati, and Mr. Ayres obtained examples 
at Spalding’s on the Hart River in January and February during 
Mr. Jatmeson’s expedition to Mashoona Land. He writes: “The river, 
which is now in flood, has near its banks many soft muddy spots, 
where these Sandpipers abound, feeding in small flocks; and a 
solitary bird may here and there be flushed from the grass at the 
edge of the water.” Sir John Kirk found the Wood Sandpiper 
on marshes and sand banks on the Shiré River. Mr. Andersson 
observes: “This is not a common bird in Damara and Great 
Namaqua Land, but now and then small flocks are to be met with 
at inland springs, streams, and marshes; in some seasons it was 
frequently obtained at Otjimbinque, and I also found it not uncommon 
in Ondonga. It occurs singly and in pairs as well as in small flocks, 
and unless much disturbed it is quite tame. Its flesh is very 
palatable.” Senor Anchieta has sent it from the Coroca River in 
Mossamedes, and from Caconda in Benguela. 
Tail, doubly emarginate, white, all the feathers barred to the base 
with blackish brown; the outermost feather, with the inner web, 
plain ; upper part of head greyish brown ; back, scapulars, and inner 
secondaries, dark purplish brown, with marginal whitish and dusky 
spots ; neck greyish white, with longitudinal dusky lines ; the breast 
and abdomen white ; lower wing-coverts dusky, edged with white ; 
axillary feathers, and some of those of the sides, narrowly and 
irregularly barred with brown; feet greenish grey. Length, 9” 
wing, 5" 2’"; tail, 2” 2”. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. viii, pl. 551. 
665. Teruxra cineREA (Guldenst.). Terek Sandpiper. 
Mr. Ayres obtained a specimen in Natal, shot out of a flock of 
four or five; they are very scarce there. Mr. Andersson says: ‘I 
have obtained very few specimens of this bird in Damara Land, the 
only places where I remember to have met with this species being 
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