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a narrow superciliary line of whitish, extending from base of bill; sides of 
face bronzy brown, with blackish shaft-lines to the feathers; fore part of 
cheeks and under surface pure white, with dusky streaks on the throat, 
these being a little longer on chest, the sides of latter and sides of upper 
breast brown; under wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases, 
especially distinct on edge of wing; axillars pure white; quills dusky 
below, white toward base of inner web. ‘Bill dusky above, brownish gray 
beneath ; feet grayish, tinged with green, claws black; iris brown.’ (Mac- 
gillivray.) Length, 203; culmen, 28; wing, 104; tail, 51; tarsus, 24. 
“Adult female in breeding plumage.—Similar to the male in color, but 
not quite so heavily marked, and the streaks on the fore neck and chest 
less pronounced. Length, 178; culmen, 28; wing, 109; tail, 61; tarsus, 22. 
“Adult in winter plumage.—A little more bronzy olive than in summer, 
and uniform above, without the black central streaks and black spear- 
shaped spots which are characteristic of the summer dress; the streaks on 
the throat are also much narrower and not so distinct. 
“Young.—Kasily distinguished by the cross-bars of sandy or reddish 
buff and dusky brown, which give the upper surface a freckled appearance ; 
throat uniform, with scarcely any indications of streaks on the lower 
part.” (Sharpe.) 
The common sandpiper is widely distributed and is often found along 
fresh-water streams as well as near the sea. 
Genus TEREKIA Bonaparte, 1838. 
Bill curved upward; tarsus longer than middle toe with claw and less 
than two-thirds of culmen; wings long, when folded extending to or 
beyond the end of tail. 
109. TEREKIA CINEREA (Giildenstiidt). 
AVOCET SANDPIPER, 
Scolopaz cinerea GULDENSTADT, Novi Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. (1775), 
19, 473, pl. 19. 
Terekia cinerea SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 474; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 161; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 47; McGrecor and 
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 26. 
Bohol (Everett); Cebu (McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester: Negros 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Whitehead). Northern Siberia, 
northeastern Europe; in winter Africa and Indian Peninsula to Australia. 
“Adult male in breeding plumage.—Differs from the winter plumage 
in having black centers to feathers of upper surface; head streaked with 
blackish brown; a rufescent tint pervades the upper surface; lesser wing- 
coverts and scapulars almost entirely black, the latter forming a double 
band down the back; wing-coverts, secondaries, lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, mottled with dusky markings; below white; lower 
throat and fore neck streaked with blackish. ‘Bill black, base of lower 
