NUMENIN&. 351 
Terekia cinerea, Gm. 
876.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 682 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p.16; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
Sind, p. 246. 
THE AVOCET SAND-PIPER. 
Length, 8:9; expanse, 16°25 ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2; tarsus, 1:1; bill 
at front, 1°8. 
Bill orange-yellow at the base, dusky at tip ; irides brown; legs 
pale orange. 
Upper plumage bluish-ashy, the stems of the feathers dark, 
with some broadish dark streaks; forehead and cheeks white, 
with ashy striz ; shoulder of wing, edge of wing, and quills 
blackish-brown, the first primary with a white stem ; secondaries 
tipped with white ; throat whitish ; neck in front and top of 
breast pale-ashy, with streaks of reddish-brown; lower breast, 
belly, and under tail-coverts white, 
The Avocet Sand-piper is a not uncommon cold weather visitant 
to Sind, Kutch, and Northern Guzerat. It does not occur in the 
Deccan. 
~ Sus-Framity, Numenine. 
Bill very long, curved downwards. 
Genus, Numenius, Zin. 
Bill very long, moderately slender, curved, almost round ; upper 
mandible channelled, the tip hard, obtuse, slightly produced 
beyond the lower ; nostrils basal, linear, apert ; wings moderately 
long, the first quill longest ; tail short, even, or slightly rounded ; 
tarsus moderately long, scutate inferiorly ; anterior toes short, 
basally connected by web, and bordered by a narrow membrane ; 
hind-toe short, with the nail rudimentary. 
Numenius lineatus, Cab. 
877.—N. arquata, Lin—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 683 ; 
Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 16 ; Deccan, Stray 
Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
Sind, p. 247; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 184. 
THE CURLEW. 
Length, 21 to 26; expanse, 34 to 38; wing, 11:0 to 12:25 ; tail, 
4-5; tarsus, 3°25; bill at front, 4:0 to 6°25. 
Bill dusky-brown, beneath fleshy ; irides dark-brown; legs and 
feet pale bluish-grey. 
Head, neck, and breast, pale ashy, tinged with rufous, the shafts 
and middle of the feathers dusky; upper back and scapulars 
blackish-brown, the feathers broadly edged with rufous-brown ; 
lower back white, with dusky spots ; tail yellowish-white, with 
transverse brown bars ; abdomen white, with dusky spots. 
