350 LIMOSIN.. 
with dark shafts tipped white, and mottled with white on the 
inner webs of the exterior ones, in some with traces of darker 
transverse bars; the primaries and their greater-coverts black ; 
the shafts of the first two or three white, subsequent ones brown- 
ish-white ; scapulars and tertiaries pale brown, darker shafted, 
margined paler,and many of them more or less tinged with ashy ; 
the lesser and median-coverts like the scapulars, but margined 
whitish ; secondaries brown, paler on their inner webs, and 
margined on both webs and on the tips with white, as indeed 
are also, so far as the tips are concerned, the later primaries, 
though less conspicuously so; the greater secondary-coverts are 
more ashy-brown, narrowly margined with white. In one speci- 
men, which appears to be further advanced, the lateral tail- 
feathers are distinctly barred brown and white; the cuneiform 
barrings on the rump and upper tail-coverts are more marked ; 
the axillaries are all strongly barred; the feathers of the sides 
and flanks, and also the lower tail-coverts, exhibit numerous 
arrow-head bars; and one or two rufous or chesnut feathers 
with black bars have begun to show themselves on the breast. 
The summer plumage is thus described by Temminck :— 
Male.—Upper parts of the head and occiput blackish-brown, 
mixed with streaks of reddish-yellow; a band of the latter color 
over the eyes; lores blackish-brown ; cheeks and throat of a 
yellowish-red ; all the lower parts of the body, including the under 
tail-coverts, pale yellowish-red; upper part of the back and 
scapulars blackish-brown, marbled with reddish-yellow and 
whitish-grey ; lower part of the back andrump white, marked 
with longitudinal yellowish-red spots ; the tail marked with brown 
and white bars, those of the latter tint irregularly distributed 
and disposed more or less longitudinally ; quills black from their 
tip, the remaining part towards the bases blackish-brown, with 
their inner webs whitish-grey, marbled with pale brown; the 
secondaries grey, with the shafts and margins white. / 
Female.—tThe head and lores, as in the male ; the throat white, 
marked with reddish-grey ; cheeks and neck very light reddish, 
with numerous brown streaks, which become broader, and form 
small transverse brown and white bars on the sides of the breast ; 
the latter and the belly marbled with white and very pale red- 
dish ; the abdominal part white ; the lower tail-coverts reddish- 
white with light brown bars—Hume, Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 
236. 
The Bar-tailed Godwitis a not uncommon cold weather visitant 
to Kurrachee Harbour, and also occurs further east at the mouths 
of the Indus. 
Genus, Terekia, Bona. 
Bill very long, slender, recurved ; tarsus rather short ; feet with 
the front toes joined by a web, narrow and short between the 
inner and mid-toes, of small size. 
